5 Oct
2026
5 Oct
'26
1:11 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Sep 2026, Mark Kahrs wrote:
Minor point: The Burroughs B6500/6700 has 51 bits
because it had 3 bits of
tag on each word. But the underlying CPU was 48 bits.
It would be interesting to know if the memory layout with 48 bits plus
tag/parity bits was inspired from the TR 4.
Christian