> > Certain Honeywell machines also had 9 / 18 / 36 bits for char/byte,
> > short and int as the size.
>
> same is true for (some?) Sperry Rand Univac 1100/80.
> and the good old Telefunken TR440 had 48 bit words (including real tag bits)...
Some DSP out there has sizeof(char) == sizeof(short) == sizeof(int)
== sizeof(long) == 32 bits. Just to show that it's not just old iron
with such unusual sizes.
Ralf
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