6 Jan
2019
6 Jan
'19
11:29 a.m.
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. In fact, in common usage,
word has become synonymous with 16 bits, much like byte has with 8
bits.
What's the difference between a word and byte? - Stack Overflow
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/.../whats-the-difference-between-a-word…
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On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:48 PM Jeffrey S. Worley via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Sun, 2019-01-06 at 12:00 -0600, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
Re: off topic - capatob - saratov2 computer
Russsian pdp8
Nothing has changed as regards the number of bits in a byte, a nybble
is 4 bits, 8 to the byte, and x to the word - this last varies widely
depending on architecture.
Still, in Spirit, on an octal processor a whole number is a six bit
'byte', so the term is appropriate, especially to avoid confusion with
the word size of two six bit 'bytes'.
Fun.
Jeff