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Summary Of: Word sizetypically having a word size of 10 or 12 decimal digits... design which had a word size of 16 bits... units of the word size may be used for... and typically that size is the word size of the architecture... the choice of a word size is of substantial importance... That preferred size becomes the word size of the architecture... efficient in time and space to have the word size be a multiple of the character size... The word size needs to be an integral multiple of the character size in this organization... the central importance of a single word size to an architecture has decreased... what might have been the central word size in a fresh design has to coexist as an alternative size to the original word... The original word size remains available in future designs... architecture clearly used a word size of 16 bits... s word size may be somewhat arbitrary...Encyclodia Page On: Word size |
