All:
I got an unusual phone call this evening from a doctor on Long Island
who is doing theoretical biological research that, he hopes, will have a
commercial application. Without going into much detail (because it was like
drinking from a fire hose and I can?t remember it all), basically he is
looking to emulate some biological processes in software. He believes that
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.
If anyone?s willing to have a conversation with this person, please
contact me off list and I?ll pass on his contact information.
Thanks.
Rich
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Rich Cini
Collector of Classic Computers
Build Master and lead engineer, Altair32 Emulator
http://www.altair32.com
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp