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From: Cameron Kaiser <spectre_at_stockholm.ptloma.edu>
Date: Mon Apr 22 19:38:56 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.

Unrelated to CDCs, there was the 1610 CPU in the Intellivision that was
10-bit internally.

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