I remember an IBM FORTRAN manual stating that arrays were stored in "natural" order -- backwards! The index registers on the 709/7090/7094 subtracted. Victor On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 21:19 Victor Miller <victorsmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
Didn't the. CDC 1604 have 48 bit words?
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 21:17 Victor Miller <victorsmiller@gmail.com> wrote:
Also the ROMP -- a 24 bit word (this was an IBM Risc machine)
On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 20:52 James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>> "HB" == Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> writes:
HB> It remains to be seen if I'll make it to 128 or 256...
RiscV has defined a 128 bit platform.
And there is a ecma-script (of all things) emulator for it.
So you are virtually there!
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