Posts by Erik Borella • 3 points
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viewsQ: Why do we name it "word" for a 2-byte sequence?
I’m a beginner in the study of computer architecture, and that name made me a little curious. I’ve seen that there are word’s, doubleword’s and quadword’s. But why it gave name to 2 bytes and not 1…