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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
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Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:26:19 -0500
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On 2/28/25 8:41 AM, Waldek Hebisch wrote:
> In alt.folklore.computers Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:
>>
>>> Hey ... even a "word" was kinda undefined for awhile. Remember octal ? 12-bit
>>> "words" ?  :-)
>>
>> You're just being silly.
>>
>> The word size in the PDP-5/PDP-8 is 12 bits.  There's no need for scare quotes
>> around the word "word".  The addressable memory unit in that architecture is
>> the word, so 4096KW is 49,152 bits, with addresses 0 to 4095 (most often
>> expressed in octal as 0 to 7777).
> 
> What "KW" means above?
> 

   'kilowords'