[Info-vax] Dave Cutler, Prism, DEC, Microsoft, etc.

[Rich Alderson]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

> In article <hejq08$nf0$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, "FredK" <fred.nospam at dec.com>
> writes:

>    But just as the 18 bit PDP-10 was updated to 23 bits,

Actually, it was updated to 30 bits architecturally.  23 bits is the KL-10
implementation, on top of its 22-bit pager (same size as that on the KI10,
though different in implementation).  One clone manufacturer, XKL, built a
machine with a full 30-bit pager (the Toad-1).

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