Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : news (at) *nospam* alderson.users.panix.com (Rich Alderson)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 27. Feb 2025, 01:34:15
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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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