Message-Id: <199706092016.UAA17553@mx2.rmplc.co.uk>
From: "Liam" <marl AT rmplc DOT co DOT uk>
To: "Andrew Crabtree" <andrewc AT typhoon DOT rose DOT hp DOT com>,
        "Cesar Scarpini Rabak" <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Cc: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: 32 bit Memory Operations
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 1997 18:14:44 +0100
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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.