9bits was the byte size for the PDP-10, I believe
IBM360 and CDC6600
Na, the /360 was a plain 8 Bit/Byte machine, but I think you're
right about the CDC. AFAIR there was a Bull machine using 9 Bit Bytes,
and 18 Bit integers.
Gruss
H.
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