Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ogicse!littlei!intelisc!hays
From: hays@isc.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: weird word lengths
Message-ID: <953@intelisc.isc.intel.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 15:32:54 GMT
References: <12857@encore.Encore.COM> <27527@bellcore.bellcore.com> <7367@eos.UUCP>
Organization: Intel Scientific Computers
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In article <7367@eos.UUCP> eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes:
>A Soviet machine has a 33-bit word.  Ask Tony Ralston (I think still at
>Arizona) if you need a ref.  I remember reading this in a survey of Eastern
>Bloc parallel computing projects.
>
>--e.n. miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@eos.arc.nasa.gov
>  {uunet,mailrus,most gateways}!ames!eugene

Some of the (early?) Soviet machines used trinary arithmetic, as well, with
values (-1, 0, 1) for each "trit".  Leads to some interesting algorithms for
multiplication, if I remember correctly...


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