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From: Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: 26 Feb 2025 19:34:15 -0500
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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).

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