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From: Radical NetSurfer <radsmail AT juno DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: printf, cprintf and CR/LF problem
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 00:23:54 -0400
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Interesting... I'm keeping this handy for future reference :-)

On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 08:35:59 GMT, dontmailme AT iname DOT com (Steamer)
wrote:

>Radical NetSurfer wrote:
>
>> /* Still waiting to learn what a 16-bit entity is called on a 32-bit
>> platform (since WORD has been made in an ambiguous term. */
>
>There has never been a standard word size, so "word" has always been
>ambiguous.  On a particular platform it ought to be obvious what "word"
>means, but 386-compatible processors running in 32-bit mode represent
>a problem - their native word size is 32 bits, but they are derived
>from 16-bit processors where "word" has always meant 16 bits.
>
>What's wrong with calling a 16-bit entity "two bytes"?  (Or "two octets",
>if you want to be totally unambiguous.)  The term "short" is OK too, as
>long as you only use it when talking about compilers on which a short is
>16 bits (which includes all x86 C compilers that I've ever seen).
>
>Or you may like to use the terminology that Donald Knuth has adopted
>for future volumes of The Art of Computer Programming:
>
>               1 byte  =  8 bits
>    2 bytes  = 1 wyde  = 16 bits
>    2 wydes  = 1 tetra = 32 bits 
>    2 tetras = 1 octa  = 64 bits
>
>The words "tetra" and "octa" are short forms of "tetrabyte" and "octabyte".
>
>S.

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