From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 27803 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2022 18:21:00 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 8 Sep 2022 18:21:00 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BDD8042286; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 04:20:55 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mercury.lcs.mit.edu (mercury.lcs.mit.edu [18.26.0.122]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 00E3F42283 for ; Fri, 9 Sep 2022 04:20:51 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 11178) id 502B118C077; Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:20:51 -0400 (EDT) To: tuhs@tuhs.org Message-Id: <20220908182051.502B118C077@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2022 14:20:51 -0400 (EDT) From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Message-ID-Hash: FTI3PTAD5DXLXNJSCVBHTDOJOR2NACUV X-Message-ID-Hash: FTI3PTAD5DXLXNJSCVBHTDOJOR2NACUV X-MailFrom: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Does anybody know the etymology of the term "word" as in collection of bits? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: > 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