bits and butts

[Stan Barr]

Hi,

Tom Jennings said:

> On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Stan Barr wrote:
> 
> > Tom Jennings said:
> 
> > > How many computers (automatic, electronic, digital,
> > > stored-program, etc) used an odd number of bits?
> > 
> > EDSAC was 18 bit, but only 17 were used due to timimg constraints,
> > does that count?
> 
> Really!?!? I suppose it ought to count! :-)

To further confuse things, long words were 35 bits and the accumulator
71 bits!  

(I've been playing with the emulator...)
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Cheers,
Stan Barr  stanb at dial.pipex.com

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