[aklug] Re: half a nibble?

From: Christopher Brown <cbrown@woods.net>
Date: Wed Dec 05 2012 - 03:34:31 AKST

Hint, its called a thread and I was replying to Jasons word means 2
bytes bit.

As far as a specific term for 2 bits, don't recall ever running across
one other than "2 bits".

On 12/5/12 3:32 AM, Christopher Howard wrote:
> 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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