[aklug] Re: half a nibble?

On 12/05/2012 02:45 AM, Jason McEachen wrote:
> 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:
>

tldr? Thanks, but I specifically inquired after the name for two /bits/,
not two /bytes/.

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