You sure about the CDC-6600? The complete word length was 60 bits, and I
seem to recall that for the purposes of characters, there were 10 6 bit
characters stored per word.
http://www.scd.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/cdc/6600.html The PPUs were 12
bitters.
--John
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> > 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.
>
> Gruss
> H.
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