| ▲ | Someone 6 days ago | |
IIRC, its instruction set supported words (36 bits), half words (18 bits), third words (12 bits), quad words (9 bits), and sixth words (6 bits). For characters, 6 bits also was used at times, for example in its disk format. There, a severely limited character set wasn’t problematic. | ||
| ▲ | Narishma a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
> quad words Shouldn't that be quarter words? Quad means quadruple. | ||
| ▲ | jacquesm 6 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The later versions (1100/60 and later) had loadable microcode. This allowed for some pretty nifty emulation options. | ||