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From: bobw@wdl1.UUCP (Robert Lee Wilson Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why 36 bits.
Message-ID: <3490018@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 31 Jul 89 22:42:55 GMT
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Two people, at least, seem to have thought I said 704's, etc, read cards
columnwise. I did not think so, and don't believe I said so!
On the other hand I was wrong, just on a different point:
I was thinking that it was nice that the array, once read in, be a whole
number of words. Mr. Rubin is of course right that the 72 column limit
came from what was read in, and so the divisibility of the whole number of
bits (12 * 72) by the word length was guaranteed anyway.
Bob Wilson
(bobw@wdl1.fac.ford.com)