Two bytes is a word, but I can't remember why it's called that. Think it had to do with addressing on sixteen bit architectures? I remember having to do arch checks in asm to decide if I needed to copy/move/walk words or longs for performance.
--Jason
Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@frigidcode.com> wrote:
>8 bits = a byte
>4 bits = a nibble
>2 bits = ...?
>
>Does the hardware / software industry have some official name for two
>bytes, or a pair of boolean values? I need to pick a type name in a
>little logic programming project I am working on and am hoping to use
>the official name if there is one.
>
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