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In computing, a '''syllable''' is a name for a platform-dependent unit of information storage. Depending on the target hardware, various [[bit]] widths (and sometimes internal groupings) are associated with it. Commonly used in the 1960s and 1970s, the term has mostly fallen into disuse in favour of terms like [[byte]] or [[word (computer architecture)|word]].
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*{{anchor|8-bit}}8-bit syllables: [[English Electric KDF9]] (represented as [[syllabic octal]]s in this context) and [[Burroughs large systems]] (see also: [[Burroughs B6x00-7x00 instruction set]])
*{{anchor|12-bit}}12-bit syllables: NCR computers such as the [[NCR 315]]<ref name="Schneider_1970">{{cite book |title=Datenverarbeitungs-Lexikon |language=German |trans-title=Lexicon of information technology |author-first=Carl |author-last=Schneider |date=2013 |orig-year=1970 |publisher=[[Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH]] / Betriebswirtschaftlicher Verlag Dr. Th. Gabler GmbH |___location=Wiesbaden, Germany |edition=softcover reprint of hardcover 1st |isbn=978-3-409-31831-0<!-- softcover reprint --> |id=ISBN 3-663-13618-3 / ISBN 978-3-663-13618-7 (ebook)<!-- ebook --> |doi=10.1007/978-3-663-13618-7 |page=308 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3aN9BwAAQBAJ |access-date=2016-05-24 |quote=Hardware: Datenstruktur: NCR 315-100 / NCR-315-RMC; Wortlänge: Silbe; Bits: 12; Bytes: -; Dezimalziffern: 3; Zeichen: 2; Gleitkommadarstellung: fest verdrahtet; Mantisse: 4 Silben; […] [Hardware: Data structure: NCR 315-100 / NCR-315-RMC; Word length: Syllable; Bits: 12; Bytes: -; Decimal digits: 3; Characters: 2; Floating point format: hardwired; Mantissa: 4 syllables; […]]}}</ref> (also called [[slab (unit)|slab]]s in this context)<ref name="NCR_315_EDPS">{{cite web |url=http://www.thecorememory.com/NCR_315_EDPS.pdf |title=315 Electronic Data Processing System |publisher=[[NCR Corporation|NCR]] |date=November 1965 |id=NCR MPN ST-5008-15 |access-date=2015-01-28 |dead-url=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524113545/http://www.thecorememory.com/NCR_315_EDPS.pdf |archive-date=2016-05-24}}</ref><ref name="Bardin_1963">{{cite journal |author-last=Bardin |author-first=Hillel |date=1963 |title=NCR 315 Seminar |journal=Computer Usage Communique |volume=2 |number=3 |url=http://www.thecorememory.com/NCR_315_Seminar.pdf |dead-url=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160524113611/http://www.thecorememory.com/NCR_315_Seminar.pdf |archive-date=2016-05-24}}</ref> and [[Burroughs large systems]]
*{{anchor|13-bit}}13-bit syllables: [[Saturn Launch Vehicle Digital Computer]]
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