Timeline for What was the rationale behind 36 bit computer architectures?
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| Mar 23, 2023 at 7:26 | comment | added | Toby Speight | Thanks - thought that's what was intended, but not quite confident to make the edit for you! | |
| Mar 22, 2023 at 22:01 | history | edited | I'm Pliny | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 22, 2023 at 21:57 | comment | added | I'm Pliny | Right, the decimal machines (e.g. using binary coded decimal) represented decimal numbers (i.e. used 4 bits to represent 0-9), and I believe virtually all the machines that preceded the 701 did that. So the representation of 12 was different in a decimal machine than a binary machine. See here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_computer | |
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| Mar 18, 2023 at 21:05 | history | edited | I'm Pliny | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Mar 18, 2023 at 21:04 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Mar 18, 2023 at 21:04 | history | answered | I'm Pliny | CC BY-SA 4.0 |