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English Dictionary: Nickle by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Nickle \Nic"kle\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      The European woodpecker, or yaffle; -- called also {nicker
      pecker}.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   nickle /ni'kl/ n.   [from `nickel', common name for the U.S.
   5-cent coin] A {nybble} + 1; 5 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 also {deckle}, and
   {nybble} for names of other bit units.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   nickle
  
      /ni'kl/ ["nickel", common name for the US 5-cent coin] A
      {nibble} + 1; 5 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 also {deckle}.
  
  
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