OT-DIY CPU's

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Sun Aug 18 14:01:01 2002

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > > I was talking about word size being a power of 3.
> > > Ahh yes, all those 9-trit, 27-trit, and 81-trit systems from that
> > > parallel universe in which trinary computing won the day.
> > Ah, yes.
> > And lets make all word sizes prime numbers, just so that split words
> > (such as "nybbles") will be more fun, and not all the same size.
>
> It is obvious (at least to me) that any power of 3 (other than 3 itself
> ;-)) cannot be a prime number...
>
> You can't have it both ways. Either a power (or multiple?) of 3 as your
> word size _or_ a prime number word size.

You are, of course, quite correct. That should have read
"BUT lets make all word sizes prime numbers", to provide even MORE fun and
confusion than powers (or multiples) of 3.
Received on Sun Aug 18 2002 - 14:01:01 BST