>Fred,
>
>Just a small thing. . .
>
>maybe it's a platform dependent thing, but my learning has been:
>
>16 bits - a halfword
>32 bits - a word
>64 bits - a doubleword
>
>Cheers
>
>Jim N
>

Maybe this has changed or is computer type dependant? From the old PDP-11 and VAX world, it was as I indicated. 64 bit stuff didn't exist back then. :)