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No, the different sizes were done by the original creators, not by some committee. They had to: a PDP-11 is a 16-bit machine, a PDP-10 is 36-bit, etc.
by not2b 5y ago
No, the different sizes were done by the original creators, not by some committee. They had to: a PDP-11 is a 16-bit machine, a PDP-10 is 36-bit, etc.
- dnautics 5y agothanks, I think I was crossing stories between the C committee and the IEEE 754 committee.