Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!hpcc05!hpdmd48!sritacco From: sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer Message-ID: <14900017@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> Date: 5 Oct 90 16:07:18 GMT References: <1990Oct3.234941.16768@nsc.nsc.com> Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID Lines: 7 It is my understanding that DEC actually made a few 18 bit word machines. It was the PDP-? (I can't remember)! The reason I know this is that triple-i (a company that makes typesetters) latched on to the architecture for their equipment, and as far as I know still manufacture a clone of it today (pitiful no?). I know this because I worked for them for a short while.