3 Nov
1997
3 Nov
'97
5:31 a.m.
On Sat, 1 Nov 1997 12:43:58 -0500 (EST), kstumpf(a)unusual.on.ca
remarked:
How many computer collectors does it take to change a
light bulb?
Forty.
^^^^^
Shouldn't that really be a power of two, or maybe some bizarre
permutation of 12, 16, 18, or 36?
And, of course, the punch line:
One to change the light bulb and thirty-nine to chat
about how good
the old one was.
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3 Nov
3 Nov
8:36 p.m.
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote:
Shouldn't that really be a power of two, or
maybe some bizarre
permutation of 12, 16, 18, or 36?
Which reminds me. Which word lengths have been used by (binary) computers?
Off the top of my head :
4 (Intel 4004, etc)
8 (Far too many to list)
12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
16 (Again far too many to list)
18 (PDP1, etc)
20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2)
24 (PERQ 4)
32 (Yep, a lot of those)
36 (PDP10, etc)
What others?
| Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin) |
West Boylston |
-tony
4 Nov
4 Nov
9:06 a.m.
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Tony Duell wrote:
donm(a)cts.com
*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
Don Maslin - Keeper of the Dina-SIG CP/M System Disk Archives
Chairman, Dina-SIG of the San Diego Computer Society
Clinging tenaciously to the trailing edge of technology.
Sysop - Elephant's Graveyard (CP/M) - 619-454-8412
*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*--*
see old system support at http://www.psyber.com/~tcj
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Carl R. Friend wrote:
I have been told that the CDC Cyber 70/170-series used a 60-bit wordlength.
- don
Shouldn't that really be a power of two,
or maybe some bizarre
permutation of 12, 16, 18, or 36?
Which reminds me. Which word lengths have been used by (binary) computers?
Off the top of my head :
4 (Intel 4004, etc)
8 (Far too many to list)
12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
16 (Again far too many to list)
18 (PDP1, etc)
20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2)
24 (PERQ 4)
32 (Yep, a lot of those)
36 (PDP10, etc)
What others? | Carl Richard Friend (UNIX Sysadmin)
| West Boylston |
-tony
9:22 a.m.
4 (Intel 4004,
etc)
8 (Far too many to list)
12 (PDP8, PDP12, etc)
16 (Again far too many to list)
18 (PDP1, etc)
20 (PERQ 1, PERQ 2)
24 (PERQ 4)
32 (Yep, a lot of those)
36 (PDP10, etc)
What others?
I have been told that the CDC Cyber 70/170-series used a 60-bit wordlength. 
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