>I should have mentioned that Multics also was closely tied
>to a 36-bit word size... a re-implementation could probably
>get around this, but a port would be difficult...
>
>However, a port would work for an emulator, where you'd have
>control of all aspects of the target architecture.
>
>Regards,
>-dq
Well.... Then How about one of the following Chips? Itanium, Alpha,
PA-RISC, or UltraSparc? Would a 64-bit computer be able to handle running
a 36-bit OS?
On the emulator side there are definitly 36-bit systems emulated on 32-bit
chips, and even on 16-bit systems (at least IIRC, the 68000 is a 16-bit
chip).
Zane
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