[TUHS] Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits?
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Fri Sep 9 04:20:51 AEST 2022
> It was used, in the modern sense, in "Planning a Computer System",
> Buchholz,1962.
Also in the IBM "650 Manual of Operation", June, 1955. (Before I was
born! :-)
Noel
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