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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <2741@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 8 Oct 90 15:13:38 GMT
References: <2721@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> <71390@sgi.sgi.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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In article <71390@sgi.sgi.com> rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:

| The ancient & venerable LGP-30 (Royal Precision, Librascope Division, circa
| 1959) was a drum machine with 4096 words of *31* bits each. The accumulator,

| The instructions (all 16 of them!) did not fill the word length, and
| were not aligned with anything in particular. As I recall, it was:

  What a delightful machine. Forgive me if I don't offer to do a C
compiler for it ;-)
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
    VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.