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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: weird word lengths
Message-ID: <7367@eos.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 90 17:06:22 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif.
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A Soviet machine has a 33-bit word.  Ask Tony Ralston (I think still at
Arizona) if you need a ref.  I remember reading this in a survey of Eastern
Bloc parallel computing projects.

--e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov
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