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I've previously had a look at IBM Stretch and how they considered and rejected 60 bits. A '6-bit' byte was considered to be important - more so that 8-bit - so

I've previously had a look at IBM Stretch and how they considered and rejected 60 bits. A '6-bit' byte was considered to be important - more so that 8-bit - so having a word a multiple of 6 was seen as an advantage. https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/60-bit-computing https://thechipletter.substack.com/p/60-bit-computing

DougMerritt 4y ago
Useful interesting historical information, thanks. Seymour Cray was amazing, inventing and proving CPU architectural techniques (like out of order execution) that continue to be used today. "Control Data Corporation 6600 was the fastest computer in the world from 1964 to 1969. It was, in many ways, a pioneer of modern computing using, for example, some of the techniques that would form the basis of RISC architectures... Wikipedia: Generally considered to be the first successful supercomputer, it outperformed the industry's prior recordholder, the IBM 7030 Stretch, by a factor of three." Wow, 3x. Mind boggling.