Re: Short Vectors Versus Long Vectors

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

BGB <cr88192@gmail.com> schrieb:
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Say, seemingly no one built an 8/16 bit mainframe,

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The IBM 360/30 and 360/40 actually had a 8 and 16-bit
microarchitecture, respectively.  Of course, they hid it cleverly
behind the user-visible architecture which was 32 bits.
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But then, the Nova was a 4-bit system cleverly disguising itself
as a 16-bit system, and the Z80 had a 4-bit ALU, as well.
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or say using 24-bit
floats (Say:  S.E7.F16) rather than bigger formats, ...

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Konrad Zuse used 22-bit floats.
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Like, seemingly, the smallest point of computers was seemingly things
like the 6502 and similar...

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That was probably the PDP 8/S, which had (if Wikipedia is to be
believed) around 519 logic gates.  The 6502 had more.

The LGP-30 had 113 tubes and 1450 diodes.  The transistorized
successor, the LGP-31, had about 460 transistors and about
375 diodes (all per the wikipedia article on the LGP-30).