On 2018-08-02, at 14:00:37, Steve Thompson wrote: > > I haven't touched a Univac since 1979. So I forgot a few things. But still, > the 36 bit words made it a pain for communicating with a DEC. I was asked how > to get them to talk to each other... It was interesting -- thankfully I kept > doing FORTRAN-77 and someone else built the interface box. > "If you don't have 36-bit words, you're not playing with a full DEC!"
PDP-6, decsystem-10 and decsystem-20 had 36 bits. Vax broke the mold. -- gil
