OT-DIY CPU's

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Aug 18 13:54:01 2002

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I was talking about word size being a power of 3.
> Do you mean a 'multiple of 3' here, or are you thinking of 3, 9, 21, 81,
> ... bit machines only?

I think that he meant a multiple of 3, but a POWER of 3 would add the
extra fun that splitting a word into smaller equal pieces would then be
limited to only powers of 3.
Received on Sun Aug 18 2002 - 13:54:01 BST