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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
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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"...