On 2013-06-12, F?bio Santos <fabiosantos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 Jun 2013 06:23, "Tim Roberts" <t...@probo.com> wrote:
>> A single machine word was 60 bits, so a single register read got you 10
>> characters.
>
> 10 characters! Now that sounds like it's enough to actually store a word.
> However long words can inadverten be cropped.
Only the first 10 characters in variable names were significant when
you wrote Pascal programs (I don't remember if that was true for
FORTRAN, but I bet it was).
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