On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 20:41 -0700, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: > Well... the pdp-10 could use any number of bits per character... the > underlying instructions made packing and unpacking easy.
I think the Burroughs (Who?) 1700 had instructions that made accessing any sequence of bits easy — maybe up to a word length but not necessarily in the same word.
