At 10.36 04/11/97 +0000, you wrote:
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)
..omissis...
What others?
9 (Texas 99/4, 990/10, TMS 9900)
86 (Intel Docet again)
Riccardo