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From: simon@fuquad.ccur.com (Simon Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Looking for a really odd computer
Message-ID: <61237@fuquad.ccur.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 15:03:58 GMT
References: <14900017@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> <12894@encore.Encore.COM>
Reply-To: simon@fuquad.UUCP (Simon Rosenthal)
Organization: Concurrent Computer Corp
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In article <12894@encore.Encore.COM> jkenton@pinocchio.encore.com (Jeff Kenton) writes:
>From article <14900017@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>, by sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco):
>> It is my understanding that DEC actually made a few 18 bit word machines.
>> It was the PDP-? (I can't remember)!
>
>The PDP-1 had 18 bits.  Nice machine.
>
Not to mention its descendants, the PDP-9 and PDP-15. I remember there being
a whole roomful of these in use at Massachusetts General Hospital (running
MUMPS), as late as 1983/4.

- Simon

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