On Tue, 12 Jan 1999, Miles O'Neal wrote:
> Hans Franke said...
> |
> |> > I love your comments (and I guess you had also some contact with
> |> > these 9 Bit Byte Bull Mini computers :)
>
> I think it was Hughes that made 18 bit and 36 bit computers, too.
>
> 9 bit byte machines weren't exactly common in the 60s and 70s,
> but they weren't exactly rare, either.
The TX-2 at MIT was either a 9, 18, 27 or 36 bit machine based on how you
programmed it.
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