OT-DIY CPU's

From: Ben Franchuk <bfranchuk_at_jetnet.ab.ca>
Date: Sun Aug 18 11:01:00 2002

lee courtney wrote:
>>Hex what is that. OCTAL is the way to go!
>>Ban all 8/16/32/64 bit computers ... Bring back
>>18/36 and 12/24 cpu's!
>>A 18 bit PDP-11 would have been so nice!
>
>
> Hey! Many 16-bit minicomputers use octal notation -
> PDP11, HP1000. Just because your word size is a
> multiple of 4 doesn't mean you can't still use octal.

Lets not forget the 8080 too.
I was talking about word size being a power of 3.
Still with FPGA's and 36 bit wide memory 36 bit computers
could make a come back. :)
Received on Sun Aug 18 2002 - 11:01:00 BST