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From: antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:36:29 -0000 (UTC)
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In alt.folklore.computers Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
> antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes:
>>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.
> $ printf "%f\n" $(( 49152.0 / 4096.0 ))
> 12.000000

But the 49152 bits is 4096 _words_, so KW is clearly not kilowords.

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                              Waldek Hebisch