18 bits

Pavel Podvoiski <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.forth.colorforth
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hm, so it was just availability of chip. I though it was extending of 16 bit to simplify overflow situation and not loosing lesser half-bit in division :) 
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