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.
I don't know about the /360, but the the /370 and /390 used 8-bit bytes,
32-bit words, and 31-bit (!) addressing.
Unrelated to CDCs, there was the 1610 CPU in the Intellivision that was
10-bit internally.
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