<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:32 AM, geoffrey mendelson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:geoffreymendelson@gmail.com">geoffreymendelson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Well, let's see, going back to the 1960's, IBM 1401, word size set by a bit in memory, "a word mark" on a digit.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thanks for educating me, you need to get a job in CS archaeology.</div>
<div>But what did the word mark mean? In my ignorance I thought that work meant to imply amount of bits.</div><div> </div></div></div>