<s>
Possibly	O
the	O
best-known	O
12-bit	B-Device
CPU	O
is	O
the	O
PDP-8	B-Device
and	O
its	O
relatives	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
the	O
Intersil	B-General_Concept
6100	I-General_Concept
microprocessor	O
produced	O
in	O
various	O
forms	O
from	O
August	O
1963	O
to	O
mid-1990	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Many	O
analog	O
to	O
digital	O
converters	O
(	O
ADCs	O
)	O
have	O
a	O
12-bit	B-Device
resolution	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Some	O
PIC	B-Architecture
microcontrollers	I-Architecture
use	O
a	O
12-bit	B-Device
word	O
size	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hence	O
,	O
a	O
microprocessor	O
with	O
12-bit	B-Device
memory	O
addresses	O
can	O
directly	O
access	O
4096	O
words	O
(	O
4kW	O
)	O
of	O
word-addressable	B-General_Concept
memory	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
a	O
time	O
when	O
six-bit	O
character	O
codes	O
were	O
common	O
a	O
12-bit	B-Device
word	O
,	O
which	O
could	O
hold	O
two	O
characters	O
,	O
was	O
a	O
convenient	O
size	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
IBM	B-Application
System/360	I-Application
instruction	O
formats	O
use	O
a	O
12-bit	B-Device
displacement	O
field	O
which	O
,	O
added	O
to	O
the	O
contents	O
of	O
a	O
base	O
register	O
,	O
can	O
address	O
4096	O
bytes	O
of	O
memory	O
.	O
</s>
