22 Apr
2002
22 Apr
'02
9:01 a.m.
You sure about the CDC-6600? The complete word length was 60 bits, and I
seem to recall that for the purposes of characters, there were 10 6 bit
characters stored per word.
http://www.scd.ucar.edu/computers/gallery/cdc/6600.html The PPUs were 12
bitters.
--John
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[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Hans Franke
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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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