7 May
2007
7 May
'07
9:58 p.m.
On 7 May 2007 at 10:35, woodelf wrote:
the ?instructions? that code for the biological
processes are based on 6-bit
instructions (or multiples thereof), so he?s looking for someone with that
kind of architectural background. A PDP-8 has 12-bit instructions and I
think the PDP-9 and 15 used 18-bit words. I?m not knowledgeable about any of
the other minicomputer architectures to guess word size, but anything that?s
a low multiple of 6-bits should work for his purposes.
Before the S/360, 6 bit opcodes/characters reigned surpreme. Just
think of all of the big iron with word sizes of 6 bits...
Too bad we don't have much of it left.
Cheers,
Chuck