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bug #11593: I always taught a word was 2 bytes not 4 bytes

Submitter:	gavin <blackgold>
Submitted:	Thu 13 Jan 2005 06:13:14 PM UTC


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Mon 10 Nov 2008 03:42:00 AM UTC, comment #3: on page 12 of the actual book, there is a footer that clarifies this confusion. its not in the pdf though.	dusty <decline0>
Sun 30 Sep 2007 11:54:43 PM UTC, comment #2: a word is 2 bytes 4 bytes is a dword bit 1bit nibble 4bit byte 8bit word 16bit dword 32bit qword 64bit	Anonymous
Fri 11 Feb 2005 12:32:29 AM UTC, comment #1: Well, looks like you've been sleeping under a rock for the past decade or so then! It would be two bytes if we were using 16-bit processors. A word just happens to be whatever size chunk processors like to eat.	Anonymous
Thu 13 Jan 2005 06:13:14 PM UTC, original submission: I always taught a word was 2 bytes not 4 bytes	gavin <blackgold>

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