6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
6:10 p.m.
On 01/06/2019 01:29 PM, Bob Smith via cctalk wrote:
Sorry, thanks for playing but
Actually half of a WORD is a BYTE, whatever the numerical length is.
Ready for this,half of a BYTE is a NIBBLE.
Well, no. On 32-bit machines such as
IBM 360, VAX, etc.
half a 32-bit word is a halfword,
the fullword is equal to FOUR bytes. On a 360/65 and above,
the memory word was 64 bits, or a double-word, so half that
was a fullword. Just makes it more confusing.
Jon