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From: wunder@orac.HP.COM (Walter Underwood)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <2770001@orac.HP.COM>
Date: 4 Oct 90 22:49:07 GMT
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Somewhere, I have a photocopy of the reference card for an Arcturus
A-17, which has, of course, a 17-bit word.  Sixteen bits plus an
indirect bit.  I think it was a British mini, of the PDP-8 persuasion
(like the HP1000 and DG Nova).

Perhaps this is the largest prime word length?

wunder