Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Bob Eager Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 28 Feb 2025 13:59:13 GMT Lines: 27 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 3VpS9DXyVPFzusspap7XbQcyABfLoVVbo+ZbrkY4Rje8pTWORV Cancel-Lock: sha1:ifvGcBhHqgECazGyYMqn7rCU5Eo= sha256:T5oHPMvIXEmWGxcQVPQ21ADAQC6cVdzOc31w4YDRr64= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230186 comp.os.linux.misc:65842 On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 13:41:53 +0000, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > 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? I think he means kW. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org