Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/09/16:22:48
Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
> 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"...
Prehaps thats what we need.
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