> On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:52:14AM -0700, Craig Milo Rogers wrote:
>
> > >On 8086 maybe. On ARM a word is 32bits, on the DEC10 a word is 36bits
> > >on the PDP8 a word is 18bits IIRC.
> > ^^
> > 12
> >
> > However, a word was 18 bits on the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-9,
> > and PDP-15.
>
> Certain Honeywell machines also had 9 / 18 / 36 bits for char/byte,
> short and int as the size.
same is true for (some?) Sperry Rand Univac 1100/80.
and the good old Telefunken TR440 had 48 bit words (including real tag bits)...
Harald
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