Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.bofh.team!paganini.bofh.team!not-for-mail 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) Organization: To protect and to server Message-ID: References: <1976765442.762208809.808387.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> <20250225130315.00004e34@gmail.com> <1924764604.762215659.468999.peter_flass-yahoo.com@news.eternal-september.org> Injection-Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:36:29 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: paganini.bofh.team; logging-data="389013"; posting-host="WwiNTD3IIceGeoS5hCc4+A.user.paganini.bofh.team"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@bofh.team"; posting-account="9dIQLXBM7WM9KzA+yjdR4A"; User-Agent: tin/2.6.2-20221225 ("Pittyvaich") (Linux/6.1.0-9-amd64 (x86_64)) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.9.3 Bytes: 2197 Lines: 24 In alt.folklore.computers Scott Lurndal wrote: > antispam@fricas.org (Waldek Hebisch) writes: >>In alt.folklore.computers Rich Alderson wrote: >>> c186282 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. -- Waldek Hebisch