Scott Quinn wrote:
Wodelf explicitly implied
Why mess with the low-end mini stuff? Build something with style, power, and 36-bits.
Mosty because I want to keep it simple. One PCB for the control logic and
two PCBS's for the DATA PATH. That leaves using 4 bit slice chips a 24/32/40
bit word length. 24 bits keeps it in the small computer - large process controler
rather than a main frame style of computer.
Or, be unconventional and do 37 or some other prime
number.
I'd like to do '42' but that number was already taken by the SI-FI guys.
I still would like someday to build a trinary computer -1,0,+1 as a real
system.