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How many bytes make up a word? |
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On a 16 bit i80386 machine a nibble represents 4 bits or half of a byte.
A byte represents 8 bits.
A word represents 16 bits or 2 bytes.
On 32 bit machines the DWORD(double word) is available and represents 32 bits or 4 bytes.
On the newer 64 bit machines a QWORD represents 64 bits or 8 bytes of data. QWORD stands for QuadWord or Quadruple Word.
On modern computers, a single character consumes 2 bytes of data in memory. So the word cat would consume 6 bytes. These are known as DBCS or double-byte character sets.
First answer by Johnellishartford. Last edit by CleanFun. Contributor trust: 0 [recommend contributor]. Question popularity: 7 [recommend question]
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