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From: ath@prosys.se (Anders Thulin)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <619@juno.prosys.se>
Date: 4 Oct 90 07:20:20 GMT
References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <11791@pucc.Princeton.EDU>
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In article <11791@pucc.Princeton.EDU> EGNILGES@pucc.Princeton.EDU writes:
>In article <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) writes:
>>[ ... ] The
>>question is, has anyone ever made a general purpose computer with and
>>odd word size?
>
> [ ... ] the "Electrologica X8", with "27 bits per cell."

Aren't those 27 bits really 24 'real' bits + 3 bits for parity checking?

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