Comment by BlueTemplar
6 hours ago
How exactly ? How else do you suggest CPUs do addressing ?
Or are you suggesting to increase the size of a byte until it's the same size as a word, and merge both concepts ?
6 hours ago
How exactly ? How else do you suggest CPUs do addressing ?
Or are you suggesting to increase the size of a byte until it's the same size as a word, and merge both concepts ?
I'm saying the term "Word" abstracting the number of bytes a CPU can process in a single operation is an outdated concept. We don't really talk about word-sized values anymore. Instead we mostly explicit on the size of value in bits. Even the idea of a CPU having just one relevant word size is a bit outdated.