Tag: DWORD

bit, nybble, byte, WORD, DWORD, QWORD

Feb 16, 2012

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by

Edwin

in Hardware, Storage

It depends on the computer architecture. For 32bit, bit = …1 bit… nybble = 4 bits = 1/2 byte byte = 8 bits = 2 nybbles WORD = 2 bytes = 4 nybbles = 16 bits DWORD = 2 WORDs = 4 bytes = 8 nybbles = 32 bits QWORD = 2 DWORDs = 4…