6 Oct
2007
6 Oct
'07
7:09 p.m.
William Donzelli wrote:
Yup!
SEVEN bit
world.
Explain? Parity does not count. The big reason IBM picked eight over six with the
S/360 (and yes,
there was a fight over this), was that in the big scheme of things,
eight and four bit chunks are more memory efficient than six bit
chunks.
What about IBM's 36 bit machines?
Kind of really bad timing on DEC's part, setting
up the whole 36 bit
line just as IBM set up everything to 32. But then, they would not
have known. Bad luck.
Dec started with 18's so 36 makes sence.
Still here is some thoughts on DEC's PDP-2.
http://locl.net/homes/pdp2/
Ben.
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Will
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