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thedufer
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> I'm much more in favor of deprecating WORD as a synonym for byte
Its not a synonym for byte. In modern systems, a word is typically 4 or 8 bytes.
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Its not a synonym for byte. In modern systems, a word is typically 4 or 8 bytes.