Charles Anthony wrote:
PDP-10: 36 bit word, 5*7bit characters.
Mouse wrote:
You mean like
any 36-bit machine?
No, they usually either ran as 6 6-bit bytes or 4 9-bit bytes,
from
what I understand.
As Charles wrote, the PDP-10 commonly uses 7-bit bytes for ASCII text,
but that's only part of the truth. The architecture is quite byte size
agnostic. There are instructions to operate on any byte size from 1 to
36 bits, at any position inside a word. (Well, a later extension to the
architecture restricted this a bit.)