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* {{anchor|3-bit}}[[3-bit]] syllables: some experimental [[Complex Instruction Set Computing|CISC]] designs<ref name="Jones_2016_CISC"/><ref name="Jones_1988_CISC"/>
* {{anchor|8-bit}}[[8-bit]] syllables: [[English Electric KDF9]] (represented as [[syllabic octal]]s and also called [[slob-octal]]s<ref name="Beard_1997"/><ref name="CCS_2009"/> in this context)<ref name="EE_1961"/> and [[Burroughs large systems]] (see also: [[Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set]])
* {{anchor|12-bit}}[[12-bit]] syllables: NCR computers such as the [[NCR 315]]<ref name="Schneider_1970"/> (also called [[slab (unit)|slab]]s in this context)<ref name="Schneider_1970"/><ref name="NCR_315_EDPS"/><ref name="Bardin_1963"/> and [[Burroughs large systems]]
* {{anchor|13-bit}}[[13-bit]] syllables: [[Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer]] (LVDC)<ref name="Burkey_2009_LVDC"/> and [[Gemini Spacecraft On-Board Computer]] (OBC)<ref name="Burkey_2010_Gemini"/>
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<ref name="Burkey_2009_LVDC">{{cite web |title=Virtual AGC — AGS — LVDC — Gemini: Launch Vehicle Digital Computer (LVDC): Saturn IB and Saturn V Rockets |author-first=Ronald |author-last=Burkey |date=2009-08-21 |url=http://apollo.josefsipek.net/LVDC.html |access-date=2016-05-28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528122247/http://apollo.josefsipek.net/LVDC.html |archive-date=2016-05-28}}</ref>
<ref name="Burkey_2010_Gemini">{{cite web |title=Gemini Spacecraft Computer (OBC): Layout of Memory Words |author-first=Ronald |author-last=Burkey |date=2010-09-06 |orig-year=2011 |url=http://apollo.josefsipek.net/Gemini.html<!-- http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.htp --> |access-date=2016-05-28 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160528122439/http://apollo.josefsipek.net/Gemini.html <!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20160528114015/http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/Gemini.htp --> |archive-date=2016-05-28}}</ref>
<ref name="EE_1961">{{cite book |title=English Electric KDF9: Very high speed data processing system for Commerce, Industry, Science |type=Product flyer |date=c. 1961 |publisher=[[English Electric]] |id=Publication No DP/103. 096320WP/RP0961 |url=http://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/KDF9_Flier.pdf |access-date=2020-07-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727143037/http://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/KDF9_Flier.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-27}}</ref>
<ref name="Beard_1997">{{anchor|Beard-1997}}{{cite magazine |magazine=[[Resurrection (magazine)|Resurrection]] - The Bulletin of the Computer Conservation Society |issn=0958-7403 |publisher=[[Computer Conservation Society]] (CCS) |volume= |number=18 |date=Autumn 1997 |title=The KDF9 Computer — 30 Years On |author-first=Bob |author-last=Bear |pages=7–15 |url=http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/Archive/Resurrection/pdf/res18.pdf |access-date=2020-07-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727140754/http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/CCS/Archive/Resurrection/pdf/res18.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-27}} (NB. Mentions the term "slob-octal"<!-- or was this a type for "slab-octal"? --> as equivalent to "syllabic octal".)</ref>
<ref name="CCS_2009">{{cite web |title=Architecture of the English Electric KDF9 computer. |version=Version 1 |date=September 2009 |publisher=[[Computer Conservation Society]] (CCS) |id=CCS-N4X2 |url=http://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/ccs-n2x2.pdf |access-date=2020-07-27 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200404195007/http://www.ourcomputerheritage.org/ccs-n2x2.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-27}} (NB. Refers to Beard's 1997 [[#Beard-1997|article]].)</ref>
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