>Albert
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>Essentially - as to why they're referred to as words, yet hold numeric, the more bytes in a memory location the huger the number that can be stored in it. So, what is it? - without doing all the maths, and if my memory serves me well, a word (of 4 bytes)can hold 64Kb - a dword (of 8 bytes) 4Gb? This all depends on ones interpretation of how many bytes to each (and I don't want to get into a fight over this :-)

Hi Terry,

a word = 16 bits = 2 bytes 64K
a dword = 32 bits = 4 bytes 4G
a qword = 64 bits = 8 bytes 16GG

Fabio