< What you find "bizarre" is almost certainly what I like about them. 12- < 13-, and 14-bit wide instruction words, Harvard architecture so that < I-space and D-space are completely different concepts, remarkabably Check some of the 4bitters done over 18 years ago... nothing new to me. < etc. A refreshing change from the bland uniformity of the < 8080/8086/6800-derived microcomputers that dominate much of the world. Everything is a refreshing change from wintel. ;) Allison