What is a Machine Word and its implications for Programmers?

What is a Machine Word and its Implications?

The registers of a processor and the buses are the actual workhorses of a computer. Originally, computer registers used to be 4 bit and then moved to 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit and now 64 bits in size.  What is a Machine Word? A “machine word” is the unit of data that can be […]

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