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In alt.folklore.computers Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:kW or kilo Wordsc186282 <c186282@nnada.net> writes:What "KW" means above?
>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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