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From: brooks@physics.llnl.gov (Eugene D. Brooks III)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
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Date: 3 Oct 90 18:25:07 GMT
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In article <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
>  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?
I believe that the S1 built at LLNL had 9 bit bytes, what else do you
do with 36 bit words?  It had 18 bit floats, handled 36 bit complex values,
36 bit floats, and 72 bit "double precision" values.  Are we having fun yet?