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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Keeping other stuff with addresses
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According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:
>>> Or the CDP1802. 8 bit accumulator and 1 bit ALU.
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>> Or the PDP-8/S...
>
>We who used a PDP-8S considered it a (slow) 12-bit machine.

It was clearly a 12 bit machine, just like a 360/30 was a 32 bit machine.

Yeah, the internal implementations were narrower but that wasn't visible
to the programmer beyond the slowness.



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