32-bit bit slice?

From: Peter C. Wallace <pcw_at_mesanet.com>
Date: Sun Feb 10 10:07:45 2002

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002 jkunz_at_unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> On 9 Feb, Ken Seefried wrote:
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> > Was there ever a commercial 32-bit machine built with 2901s? Other bit
> > slice devices?
> The Symbolics 3640 I saw used AMD bit slice chips. I can not remember
> what type exactly, but definitely AMD stuff. The word size is 32 (or
> 36?) bit. You may have a look at
> http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~moeller/symbolics-info/symbolics.html
> --

36 (32 bit data + 4 bit tag), but I dont know if the ALU is 36 bits or 32
though...

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Peter Wallace
Received on Sun Feb 10 2002 - 10:07:45 GMT

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