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There was a series of Polish mineframes called Odra with 24bit integers which also died out in 80s essentially, but some of them were still used till 2010 in so
by ajuc 7y ago
There was a series of Polish mineframes called Odra with 24bit integers which also died out in 80s essentially, but some of them were still used till 2010 in some specialized railway station software, and there was a short series of faster replacement processors for them made in late 80s-early 90s called SKOK.
Of course they weren't "widespread" for most meanings of that word :)
- burfog 7y agoYou can get that experience today with the C compiler for the EZ80 chip. The short is 16-bit, and the long is 32-bit, so logically the int is 24-bit. You can use it as int24_t if you prefer. An EZ80 is used in some of the TI graphing calculators.
- gumby 7y agoOn the PDP-10/20 bytes could range from 1 to 63 bits wide.