Stuart McLachlan
stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Thu May 19 08:18:30 CDT 2005
On 19 May 2005 at 7:23, John W. Colby wrote: > No, it was groups of 3 bit octal numbers. > > ??? http://www.perl6.org/perl6-language/2004-09/msg00108.html "The Honeywell 6000 (which is still around as a machine from Bull with a 6 in its name, I believe) was a word addressed machine. (Words were 36 bits long and could hold 4 9-bit characters packed into each one.)" http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4240144.html "Prior art systems, for example, the Honeywell 6000 family of computers stored operand 3 in the bank of registers with combination logic setting up the pointers to identify the number and positions of leading and trailing zones as well as the character size, 4 bits or 9 bits, within each word and the position of the sign, trailing or leading." http://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2004-October/001066.html "On page 182 of K&R 1st edition there's a reference to an implementation of C on the Honeywell 6000, with 9 bit bytes." -- Stuart