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> data to be transmitted in a byte, word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or 32-bits per code unit) I don't think I've heard "word" mean "16 bits"
by ken 7y ago
> data to be transmitted in a byte, word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or 32-bits per code unit)
I don't think I've heard "word" mean "16 bits" since the 1980's ... and apparently neither has Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#Table_of_word_sizes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)#T...
- jontro 7y agoIn Windows world DWORD is 32 bits large: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/262627d8-3418-4627-9218-4ffe110850b2 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols...
- pjtr 7y agoAnd WORD 16 bits: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-dtyp/f8573df3-a44a-4a50-b070-ac4c3aa78e3c https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols... (QWORD 64 bits)
- WalterGR 7y agoThe concept of the word size of an architecture is different than "word" which has long been used colloquially in computing to mean two bytes. 2 nibbles are a byte. 2 bytes are a word. Edit: "Word" as two bytes may actually be a microcomputer-specific colloquialism.