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 22:16:28 GMT Lines: 34 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 BWrF6korX8608dXxSaAtYwrcVd8okOhjowPakcesLhTEdcZtv/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:KKICplQ1Wq9sfudMDP5SHXy0dDQ= sha256:liAnCe9xUN/+KexVP2VYM7bu+Dc1+ClDKJ6Oy/Li0RQ= User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230211 comp.os.linux.misc:65877 On Fri, 28 Feb 2025 17:36:29 +0000, Waldek Hebisch wrote: > 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. Indeed. It is Kelvin Wods. kilowords would be kW. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org