Deckle

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deckle
/dek´l/
Usage: n.
Derivation: From dec- and nybble; the original spelling seems to have been decle


deckle: /dek´l/ n.

[from dec- and nybble; the original spelling seems to have been decle] Two nickles; 10 bits. Reported among developers for Mattel's GI 1600 (the Intellivision games processor), a chip with 16-bit-wide RAM but 10-bit-wide ROM. See nybble for other such terms.

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Source: deckle, in The Jargon File, version 4.4.7.


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