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in reply to @KingChip's post:
HC: Darpa?
HW: 16 bits usually. Who knows for whatever random now defunct system being referenced here
Honestly in the PDP era it could be anything. I know there were some older machines with 6-bit bytes. For word size...10-bit? 12-bit? 20-bit? Nothing would surprise me.
I was more familiar with the PDP-8's 12-bit words, but I had a suspicion that PDP-10 might be the one with 36-bit words, and yep, it is.
Kind of surprised that the jargon "kludge" is that old.
For HC, "Darpa" is the wrong kind of answer. (Also, too recent) It's a specific military missile system that you're unlikely to know about these days unless you're a cold war history buff. (Or, I suppose, an Operations Research or Management Science history buff)
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