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I think you’re confusing bytes and words. A word is multiple bytes. In this case 8 bytes.
by chrisseaton 5y ago
I think you’re confusing bytes and words. A word is multiple bytes. In this case 8 bytes.
- daneel_w 5y agoYes and no - the term was used early to describe the native register size of a microprocessor. Later on, when microprocessors began offering instructions that could deal with varying data size, it became one of several terms used, e.g. the Motorola 680x0 which uses the terms bytes (8 bits), words (16 bits) and longwords (32 bits).