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| Re: The variable bit cpu |
| 01 Aug 05 23:56:28 |
From: nospam@hotmail.com
"Andrzej Grażyński" wrote in message
news:dclti7$aac$1@atlantis.news.tpi.pl...
> > Revolution :D
>
> None of revolutions. Metabits were in architecture B5500 (Burroughs)
> (about 1970) to a) tell adreses from absolute values b) tell data from
> code c) indicate field limits. (Discovery of America again?)
Reference manual of B5500:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/burroughs/B5500/B5500_RefMan.pdf
Page 2-8 mentioned integers are limited to a 813,887 in decimal.
Further it seems this machine simply uses 13 bytes for integers instead of 4
or 8 bytes as usual on modern cpu's.
Please specify the page where it mentions metabits to scale the integers to
infinite size... or as much memory as the machine allows.
Surely it has more memory than just 13 bytes ? ;)
Bye,
Skybuck.
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