4 Nov
1997
4 Nov
'97
6:56 a.m.
Also, 88 (8088), 87 (487, 8087, etc.) and many other numbers. With macs,
there's a whole slew of numbers that I don't want to get into.
Tim D. Hotze
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From: Riccardo Romagnoli <chemif(a)mbox.queen.it>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: Computer collecting humor.
Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 4:49 PM
At 10.36 04/11/97 +0000, you wrote:
Which reminds me. Which word lengths have been used by
(binary) computers?
Off the top of my head :
4 (Intel 4004, etc)
8 (Far too many to list)
12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
..omissis...
What others?
9 (Texas 99/4, 990/10, TMS 9900)
86 (Intel Docet again)
Riccardo