18 Mar
2009
18 Mar
'09
8:51 p.m.
>>>> "pontus" == pontus
<pontus at update.uu.se> writes:
> In fact, it looks like a memory with two inhibit
wires rather than
> the common single inhibit. This matches what CDC did in the
> 60-bit mainframes (6000 series). But it isn't one of those
> because it has 7 groups of 8 rows, while CDC has 64 rows and
> colums per plane. 3584 bits per plane... very strange.
pontus> If it makes more sense, the plane is double sided so it
pontus> tallies up to 7168 bits
Not a lot. I can't think of 14 bit systems. The only thing that
comes to mind is 27 bits plus parity (two planes) -- 27 bit computers
existed...
paul