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From: lmiller@venera.isi.edu (Larry Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: non-binary hardware (was: Absolute size of 'short')
Message-ID: <6266@venera.isi.edu>
Date: 10 Sep 88 22:07:17 GMT
References: <1285@mcgill-vision.UUCP> <297@sdti.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmiller@venera.isi.edu.UUCP (Larry Miller)
Organization: Information Sciences Institute, Univ. of So. California
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In article <297@sdti.UUCP> turner@sdti.UUCP (Prescott K. Turner, Jr.) writes:
>In article <1285@mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
>writes:
>>By the way, does anyone know of a non-mechanical digital calculator or
>>computer that isn't essentially binary?
>
    There was also the IBM 1620, a BCD machine.  Yes, decimal, but
    all arithmetic was performed using table lookup, floating point
    in software, so I guess it could be called a nonbinary machine.

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