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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 19:23:28 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center
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  There has been discussion of computer word size, does the number of
bits have to be a power of two for new systems, etc. I was looking at a
discussion in another group and saw a really nice way to solve the
problem, but rejected it because it wasn't portable to any system. The
question is, has anyone ever made a general purpose computer with and
odd word size? No one doesn't count, thank you bit slicers.

  I can't think of any, but back when 32 vs 36 was still being debated,
many minis were made with 16 or 18 bit words, so did anyone ever build a
9-bit byte system?
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.