"Anthony J. Albert" ha scritto:
>
> I must agree that 1 bit of information is the basis. Also that 4 bits
> are usually called a "nibble" and 8 bits makes a "byte".
>
> However, larger sizes are "words" and "double words", and these
> are highly machine-dependant on the number of bits which makes
> up each. PDP, VAX, and IBM equipment have had "words" in sizes
> from 12 bits to 34 bits, and other microprocessors use words of 8
> to 64 to (in Very Large Instruction Word processors) 128 bits and
> up!
>
> Typically, a "word" refers to the usual size of data that the
> processor works with; frequently this is also the width of the data
> bus. In Intel microprocessors, the 8086, 80186, and 80286 used 16-
> bit "words", and the 80386 and 80486 used 32-bit "words"
>
That's Babele's Tower!!! Why don't simply define byte, words, Dword etc.. in
mathematical way?
So CPUs using 32 bit data they are using DWORDS, if they have 16 bit data are
using WORD ...
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