Variable Word length CPU

[Gil Carrick]

...
> You might as well make it decimal, too, Dwight.  That way you 
> can use the
> 8-4 and 8-2 combinations to mark the end of a word... :) 
> 
> (I guess it's been done!)

Kinda. The IBM 1401, 1440, 1410, but they used an extra bit in each (6 bit)
called a word mark rather than blow off a digit. It was designed to hold
alphabetic info as well as doing decimal math.

Gil

> Cheers,
> Chuck
> 
>