off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8

[Jon Elson]

On 01/06/2019 01:29 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote:
> Sorry, thanks for playing but
> Actually half of a WORD is a BYTE, whatever the numerical length is.
> Ready for this,half of a BYTE is a NIBBLE.
Well, no.  On 32-bit machines such as IBM 360, VAX, etc. 
half a 32-bit word is a halfword,
the fullword is equal to FOUR bytes.  On a 360/65 and above, 
the memory word was 64 bits, or a double-word, so half that 
was a fullword.  Just makes it more confusing.

Jon