[clamav-users] Issue with clamav logical signature generation

[SCOTT PACKARD]

> Can't remember using 12 bit words, but one of the first machines I used,
> a CDC 6600, had 60 bit data words and 18 bit addresses.
> Text was normally uppercase-only, stored in 6-bit bytes ten characters
> per word. But if you wanted to use lower case you could use a different
> encoding which would occupy two of the 6-bit bytes per character, so in
> a way you had 12-bit bytes

An instructor called it Consistency Doesn't Count (CDC).
That was the big machine on campus back in the day.