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, 12 years ago→Discussion Cont.: My bad. PDP-10's 36-bit word stored 5 x 7-bit bytes, not 7 x 5-bit bytes.
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[[User:NevilleDNZ|NevilleDNZ]] 04:42, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
<s>Ye Gads... I just found out that FORTRAN programs on the PDP-10 were coded in 5-bits... the original [http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/e_downloads.html Adventure] game was written in 5-bit FORTRAN. [http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/source/advent-original.tar.gz original code]</s>
Wikipedia: A t-shirt was spotted at DECUS that said: "If you haven't got 36 bits, you're not working with a full [[wp:Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]."
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