I saw it mentioned before working with Windows just as a type reference:
nibble, byte, word, double word (dword) and quad word.
----- Original Message -----
> At 16:22 25/04/01 +0100, Mark Watts wrote:
> >A DWORD is actually a data type used in programming. Officially it's an
> >unsigned long integer which is defined to be 32 bits wide.
>
> I've only seen it used in MS windows environment. never used such a
concept.
> Posix defines many types, and dword is not one of them. so I'll continue
to
> live
> without:)
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