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Guy Harris (talk | contribs) →Adding to the History of 32 bit: It dates back at least to 1964; hopefully that doesn't come as *too* much of a surprise. |
Guy Harris (talk | contribs) →Adding to the History of 32 bit: ...and the main effect of S/360's 32-bitness, combined with its byte addressing, was the promotion of the 8-bit byte. |
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:"When 32-bit first became created" - that was at least [[IBM System/360|1964]], and may have been before that. Interestingly, it had ''fewer'' bits per word than [[IBM 7090|IBM's previous line of mainframe computers]]. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 04:29, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
::And the main effect the 32-bitness of S/360 had on computers was that it popularized the 8-bit byte, although that was not just a consequence of its 32-bitness, it was also a consequence of it using byte addressing. That byte size was adopted also by a number of 16-bit byte-addressable processors, such as the [[PDP-11]]. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 07:43, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
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