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Message-Id: | <1.5.4.32.19970609142705.00699c44@dce03.ipt.br> |
Mime-Version: | 1.0 |
Date: | Mon, 09 Jun 1997 11:27:05 -0300 |
To: | Andrew Crabtree <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>, marl AT rmplc DOT co DOT uk (Liam) |
From: | Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br> |
Subject: | Re: 32 bit Memory Operations |
Cc: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com |
At 14:42 06/06/97 PDT, Andrew Crabtree wrote: >Well, if you take off the intel x86 blinders, word has historically >meant the normal interger size of the CPU, which would be >4 bytes for 386s and newer. Every other 32 bit >architecture I've used defines words to be 32 bits long, so anyone In fact I can recall my old IBM 360 days where in the Big Blue parlance a word was 32 bits and a 16 bit object was a "half word"...
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