Fábio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 5 Jun 2013 06:23, "Tim Roberts" <t...@probo.com> wrote: >> A single machine word was 60 bits, so a single register read got you 10 >> characters. > >10 characters! Now that sounds like it's enough to actually store a word. >However long words can inadverten be cropped.
Well, Cybers weren't often used for heavy text processing. Most of the time, a "word" was limited to 7 characters, so you could fit an 18-bit address in the bottom of the register. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
