48 bits + 2 tag bits on Telefunken TR 4 and TR 440.
Character size could be 6, 8 or 12 bits, as you liked.
There were different character sets.
12 was used for FORTRAN on this machine, because it
was best for compatibility with other FORTRANS (4 chars = 1 integer).
In fact only 8 of the 12 bits were really used.
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 22.12.2013 13:52, schrieb Clark Morris:
On 21 Dec 2013 19:17:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
In <p06240401ceca853cbacd@[192.168.2.101]>, on 12/08/2013
at 03:27 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <[email protected]> said:
Data in the computer is stored in 8-bit long bytes.
Data in a computer are stored in units dictated by the architecture.
For the S/360 it's 8-bit[1] bytes. I've seen word sizes of 12, 18, 24,
30, 36, 60 and 64 bits, words size of 10 decimal digits[2] and
character size of 6 bits, and that leaves out the really old stuff.
Also 48 bits on the Honeywell 800 and Burroughs B5000.
Clark Morris
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