On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Rich Alderson wrote: > > - It used odd sized (by todays standards) register, instruction, and bus > > sizes. 60 bit machine with 15/30 bit instructions. But, didn't it cause > > a bunch of alignment issues for you ? > ??? Alignment issues? Care to define this? Are you thinking of bytes?
Exactly, yes. I was thinking that 60 bits is not divisble by 8. However, as I said, I'm a total ignoramous about the platform. > The word is [...] ... packed into the 60-bit word. > Where would you see alignment issues? Well, as you so eloquently explain, as long as the units feeding into the registers are factors of the register's total size, it's not a problem. So, it sounds like it wasn't an issue. I didn't know of any actual issue, I was just curious. -Swift
