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On Wed, 05 Sep 2012 07:02:48 -0700, Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
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>The original IBM PC did have a 16 bit word size, but even at that time
>there were many computers with a 32 bit word size, and some with bigger
>sizes.
My first computing job was on a Burroughs mainframe with 64-bit words,
back in the seventies.

rossum

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"word" bob <bob@coolfone.comze.com> - 2012-09-05 06:38 -0700
  Re: "word" "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2012-09-05 15:55 +0200
  Re: "word" Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-05 07:02 -0700
    Re: "word" Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-09-05 09:34 -0700
      Re: "word" Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-09-05 10:56 -0700
    Re: "word" Anonymous <nobody@remailer.paranoici.org> - 2012-09-05 18:57 +0000
      Re: "word" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-05 23:23 +0100
      Re: "word" "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-05 23:43 +0100
        Re: "word" Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-09-06 01:09 +0100
          Re: "word" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 22:03 -0500
          Re: "word" "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-09-06 11:02 +0100
            Re: "word" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-06 11:31 -0500
      Re: "word" Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2012-09-05 21:38 -0500
      Re: "word" Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-09-10 05:40 -0700
    Re: "word" rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-09-06 11:30 +0100
  Re: "word" Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-09-05 21:40 +0100
    Re: "word" Jongware <jongware@no-spam.plz> - 2012-09-07 16:26 +0200
      Re: "word" Robin Vowels <robin.vowels@gmail.com> - 2012-09-11 03:34 -0700

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