Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On 28/02/2025 12:26, c186282 wrote:

A lot of mini-computers were 16 bit around the
   time microprocessors came out, so "half a mini"
   maybe kinda sounded logical.
    Should be a fair number of the decision-makers
   from the 60s-70s still alive. If anybody knows
   some, ASK.

Well an old friend of mine was involved in a small 16 bit minicomputer years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digico_Limited
IIRC it was all TTL, as CMOS hadnt come in.
They never made the transition to CPU chips as such. When I knew them around 1975
I am not sure what happened to them after that.
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