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From: gideony@microsoft.UUCP (Gideon YUVAL)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <58001@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 5 Oct 90 18:18:10 GMT
References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <12857@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: gideony@microsoft.UUCP (Gideon YUVAL)
Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA
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In article <12857@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes:
>> 
>> 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.
>All in all, the answer to your question is probably "no".

I think the AN/UYK-21 has a 21-bit word; I also think the Russians
made a 37-bit machine (?Ural or Minsk?) -- they had a parity bit,
and decided at the last moment to make it user-visible.
-- 
Gideon Yuval, gideony@microsof.UUCP, 206-882-8080 (fax:206-883-8101;TWX:160520)