Re: What is an N-bit machine?

In article <87frnbyo54.fsf@localhost>, lynn@garlic.com (Lynn Wheeler)
wrote:

At the time, IBM had the "Future System" project that was planning
on doing just that ... and I assumed that was what he was referring
to ... however in later years he claimed that he never had any
knowledge about "FS" (and had left IBM before it started).

He did, however, have an extensive knowledge of IBM senior management. At
the time it would have been plausible that they'd consider abandoning
360/370 in favour of something they thought better.

John