On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Tony Duell wrote:
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> On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote:
> > Shouldn't that really be a power of two, or maybe some bizarre
> > permutation of 12, 16, 18, or 36?
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> Which reminds me. Which word lengths have been used by (binary) computers?
> Off the top of my head :
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> 4 (Intel 4004, etc)
> 8 (Far too many to list)
> 12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
> 16 (Again far too many to list)
> 18 (PDP1, etc)
> 20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2)
> 24 (PERQ 4)
> 32 (Yep, a lot of those)
> 36 (PDP10, etc)
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> What others?
I have been told that the CDC Cyber 70/170-series used a 60-bit wordlength.
- don
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> > | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) | West Boylston |
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> -tony
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