non-binary hardware (was: Absolute size of 'short')
Larry Miller
lmiller at venera.isi.edu
Sun Sep 11 08:07:17 AEST 1988
In article <297 at sdti.UUCP> turner at sdti.UUCP (Prescott K. Turner, Jr.) writes:
>In article <1285 at mcgill-vision.UUCP> mouse at mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
>writes:
>>By the way, does anyone know of a non-mechanical digital calculator or
>>computer that isn't essentially binary?
>
There was also the IBM 1620, a BCD machine. Yes, decimal, but
all arithmetic was performed using table lookup, floating point
in software, so I guess it could be called a nonbinary machine.
Larry Miller lmiller at venera.isi.edu (no uucp)
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