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   Jan 21, 2015 · Here’s the quick tour: A bit is a single binary digit, 0 or 1. A byte is 8 bits side by side. A word is 2 bytes side by side. A double word is 2 words side by side. A quad word is 2 double words side by side. And this is from the book Principles of Computer Organization and Assembly Language: Using the Java Virtual Machine, Patrick Juola:

2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Word_(computer_architecture)Word (computer architecture) - Wikipedia

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   Word (computer architecture) In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by a particular processor design. A word is a fixed-sized datum handled as a unit by the instruction set or the hardware of the processor. The number of bits or digits [a] in a word (the word size, word width, or word length) is an important characteristic of any ...

3. thisvsthat.io › byte-vs-wordByte vs. Word - What's the Difference? | This vs. That

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   In many modern computers, a word is equivalent to 4 bytes or 32 bits. Usage. Bytes and words are used in different contexts within the field of computer science. Bytes are commonly used to represent individual characters, such as letters, numbers, and symbols, in text-based data.

4. www.techtarget.com › whatis › definitionWhat is a word in computing architecture? | Definition from ...

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   In IBM's System/360 mainframe architecture, a word is 32 bits, or four contiguous 8-bit bytes. In Intel's PC processor architecture, a word is 16 bits, or two contiguous 8-bit bytes. In general, the longer the architected word length, the more the computer system processor can do in a single operation. Word sizes in computer architectures

5. www.baeldung.com › cs › word-vs-byteWhat’s the Difference Between a Word and a Byte? - Baeldung

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   Mar 18, 2024 · The size of a word varies according to the system architecture, with modern computers generally using 32 or 64-bit words. Other sizes for words are however possible. The early Z3 computer, for example, used a 22-bit word structure. Computers for space exploration in the 1960s used instead 39-bit words, which consisted of three syllables of 13 ...

6. www.plainenglish.info › Bits,+bytes+and+wordsBits, bytes and words - Computer Science in plain english

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   You often hear about 32-bit or 64-bit computer architectures. A word is basically the number of bits a particular computer's CPU can deal with in one go. It varies depending on the computer architecture you're using. Imagine looking at an imaginary computer's circuitry very closely. On a 32-bit machine, you would see 32 wires running parallel ...

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   How many bits are in a word?

   • Word sizes thereafter are naturally multiples of eight bits, with 16, 32, and 64 bits being commonly used. Early machine designs included some that used what is often termed a variable word length. In this type of organization, an operand has no fixed length.

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   How many bites is a word on a 32-bit computer?

   • 1 That's entirely dependent on the CPU type. As you point out, on 32-bit non-IA32 machines, a "word" is typically 32 bites. – Ross Patterson CommentedOct 13, 2011 at 13:49 2 @RossPatterson That's entirely dependent on whether you're developing software or eating dinner. – Engineer CommentedDec 3, 2011 at 17:12

   What's the difference between a word and byte? - Stack Overflow

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   How many bits are in a byte?

   • For convenience, 8 bits are usually grouped into a single block, conventionally called a byte. The next-largest named block of bits is a word. The definition and size of a word are not absolute, but vary from computer to computer. A word is the size of the most convenient block of data for the computer to deal with.

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   What is a 16 bit word?

   • The capitalization and the specific sizes in the question (16 bit for WORD, on a 32 bit OS) imply something different than the generic term "processor word". In legacy Windows programming (the Win32 API), there is a macro defined called WORD, the size of which is 16 bits. This made sense when processors were 16 bit.

   How many bits does a WORD contain in 32/64 bit OS respectively?

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   How many byte is a word?

   • A word is generally made up of one or more bytes. For example, a computer may have instructions to move 64-bit (8-byte) words. A word is the natural unit of memory for a given computer design. For 8-bit microcomputers, such as the original Apples, a word is just 8 bits.

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   What is the difference between a byte and a word?

   • Here’s the quick tour: A bit is a single binary digit, 0 or 1. A byte is 8 bits side by side. A word is 2 bytes side by side. A double word is 2 words side by side. A quad word is 2 double words side by side. And this is from the book Principles of Computer Organization and Assembly Language: Using the Java Virtual Machine, Patrick Juola:

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8. www.cs.sjsu.edu › modules › lecturesBits Bytes and Words

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   Bit = Binary digIT = 0 or 1. Byte = a sequence of 8 bits = 00000000, 00000001, ..., or 11111111. Word = a sequence of N bits where N = 16, 32, 64 depending on the computer. There are 2 N words of length N. Why? How many bytes are there? Measuring Amount of Data/Memory Capacity. 1 kilobyte = 1 KB = 2 10 bytes = 1024 bytes (appx 10 3 bytes) 1 ...