It was thus said that the Great Dwight K. Elvey once stated:
My thought is to make a variable word length processor using
a single bit ALU. Of course, I've been thinking in terms of a relay
based machine.
The CM-1 (Connection Machine) was just such a beast, although with that
you had 65,536 1-bit CPUs, each with 4096 bits of memory.
-spc (Interesting machine, and certainly on topic ... )