Data type "WORD" What is the origin of the name?

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Andrey Osty2012-07-28 15:29:51

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Andrey Osty, 2012-07-28 15:29:51

In many programming languages there is a "WORD" type, in others there are analogues only called differently. Maybe someone knows the history of the appearance of the name like "WORD"? It would be interesting to know, share or tell me where to look, otherwise Google only tells that there is such a data type in Delphi.

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Fortop, 2012-07-28
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This is a machine word.
Depending on the architecture, there are different lengths of 2 bytes, 4 bytes, etc.
Actually it comes from pre-assembler times. When programs were written in machine codes.

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Nickel3000, 2012-07-28
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You can read it on the wiki .

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impass, 2012-07-28
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Wikipedia reveals this question in detail
Word (computer architecture)

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aspect, 2012-08-01
@aspect

Sacred? — Hmm In the
beginning, God created bits and bytes. And from them he created the word.
And there were two bytes in the word, and there was nothing else.
And God separated one from zero ...