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Were there ever 12-, 24-, 48-, etc. bit processors?
- haspoken 7y agoDo you mean register size? BUS size? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-bit_architecture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-bit_architecture And check out the box in the upper right area that is titled "Computer architecture bit widths" There are pages for: 1 2 4 8 12 16 18 24 26 28 31 32 36 48 60 64 128 256 512 Also check out Forth CPUs And why stick to binary? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_computer