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Date:      Tue, 13 Jun 2006 01:34:50 -0400
From:      Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
To:        Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
Cc:        misc@openbsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, netbsd-users@NetBSD.org
Subject:   Re: wikipedia article
Message-ID:  <20060613053450.GA573@panix.com>
In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEBMFEAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
References:  <200606122014.k5CKEvgZ029908@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNMEBMFEAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>

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On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:27:33PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
> What was the bit size of the CPU's originally used to write UNIX in Bell
> Labs?

Rather large.  You can get all the details at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_core.

-- 
  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls@rek.tjls.com

  "We cannot usually in social life pursue a single value or a single moral
   aim, untroubled by the need to compromise with others."      - H.L.A. Hart



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