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From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Mon Apr 22 08:45:36 2002

> > > 9bits was the byte size for the PDP-10, I believe IBM360 and CDC6600

> > Na, the /360 was a plain 8 Bit/Byte machine, but I think you're right
> > about the CDC. AFAIR there was a Bull machine using 9 Bit Bytes, and
> > 18 Bit integers.

> I don't know about the /360, but the the /370 and /390 used 8-bit bytes,
> 32-bit words, and 31-bit (!) addressing.

Well,

/360 16 Bit address
/370 24 Bit address
/390 24 or 31 Bit address

All architectures had 8 Bit Bytes and 32 Bit Registers

Gruss
H.

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