Sorry, thanks for playing but Actually half of a WORD is a BYTE, whatever the numerical length is. Ready for this,half of a BYTE is a NIBBLE. In fact, in common usage, word has become synonymous with 16 bits, much like byte has with 8 bits. What's the difference between a word and byte? - Stack Overflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/.../whats-the-difference-between-a-word-and-byte Feedback About this result
On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:48 PM Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, 2019-01-06 at 12:00 -0600, [email protected] wrote: > > Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer Russsian pdp8 > > Nothing has changed as regards the number of bits in a byte, a nybble > is 4 bits, 8 to the byte, and x to the word - this last varies widely > depending on architecture. > > Still, in Spirit, on an octal processor a whole number is a six bit > 'byte', so the term is appropriate, especially to avoid confusion with > the word size of two six bit 'bytes'. > > Fun. > > Jeff >
