Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question


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Re: A92: learning assembly - real simple question




In a message dated 98-07-29 13:50:02 EDT, you write:

> l'm reading the 68k documentation l got at ticalc...as l read further l 
> begin
>  to understand more.  l'm sure it's in there somewhere, but l'm not sure...
> what
>  is the difference between a byte, word and longword?  thanks

The difference lies in how many bits comprise each thing; the more bits, the
bigger the range of numbers it can hold

byte: 8 bits
word: 2 bytes: 16 bits
longword: 2 words: 4 bytes: 32 bits

byte: 256 range
word: 65,536 range
longword:4,294,967,296 range

The range of a one of these is determined by two raised to the number of bits
in the given thing
Hope that helped!

~Adamman