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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: 64 Vs 32
Message-ID: <1346@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 27-Mar-87 15:56:23 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 27 15:56:23 1987
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Reply-To: davidsen@kbsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <15525@sun.uucp> gil%pajaro@Sun.COM (Gilman Chesley) writes:
>
>In article 645 Lars Aronsson asks:
>> Is there already ... a computer with truely variable word length?
>
>The Fairchild SymbolIIR (R for research) computer, circa 1970, was VFL with
>hardware supported array structured memory having no limitations on
>manipulation. The size or type of data did not have to be specified in the 

I believe that the Intel 432 was VFL *and* was bit addressable. I have a 432
manual home, and can check over the weekend.

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