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minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoFunny, in Finnish a byte is called a syllable. Which would better apply to a nibble I guess.
minus-squareNatanael@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoA word is typically 4 bytes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·23 days agoOh. Shit, first I didn’t know what a nibble is, now I didn’t know what a word is … I’ll just show myself out and make sure I never try to write any assembler code.
minus-squareNatanael@infosec.publinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoWell technically https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable_(computing)
minus-squareheartSagan5@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up0·23 days agoIt depends on the architecture. Some chips have weird words, like the Voyager spacecraft computer.
Funny, in Finnish a byte is called a syllable. Which would better apply to a nibble I guess.
A word is typically 4 bytes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_(computer_architecture)
Oh. Shit, first I didn’t know what a nibble is, now I didn’t know what a word is … I’ll just show myself out and make sure I never try to write any assembler code.
Well technically
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllable_(computing)
It depends on the architecture. Some chips have weird words, like the Voyager spacecraft computer.