Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 1998 11:07:30 +0200 | From | Harald Koenig <> | Subject | Re: faster strcpy() |
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On May 01, ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 1998 at 11:52:14AM -0700, Craig Milo Rogers wrote: > > > >On 8086 maybe. On ARM a word is 32bits, on the DEC10 a word is 36bits > > >on the PDP8 a word is 18bits IIRC. > > ^^ > > 12 > > > > However, a word was 18 bits on the PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-9, > > and PDP-15. > > 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)...
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