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  2. Byte addressing - Wikipedia

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    An eight-bit processor like the Intel 8008 addresses eight bits, but as this is the full width of the accumulator and other registers, this could be considered either byte-addressable or word-addressable. 32-bit x86 processors, which address memory in 8-bit units but have 32-bit general-purpose registers and can operate on 32-bit items with a ...

  3. 128-bit computing - Wikipedia

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    Support for such operations was an upgrade option rather than being a standard feature. Since the VAX's registers were 32 bits wide, a 128-bit operation used four consecutive registers or four longwords in memory. The ICL 2900 Series provided a 128-bit accumulator, and its instruction set included 128-bit floating-point and packed decimal ...

  4. Computer number format - Wikipedia

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    This is called byte-addressable memory. Historically, many CPUs read data in some multiple of eight bits. [3] Because the byte size of eight bits is so common, but the definition is not standardized, the term octet is sometimes used to explicitly describe an eight bit sequence. A nibble (sometimes nybble), is a number composed of four bits. [4]

  5. Memory address - Wikipedia

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    In theory, modern byte-addressable 64-bit computers can address 2 64 bytes (16 exbibytes), but in practice the amount of memory is limited by the CPU, the memory controller, or the printed circuit board design (e.g., number of physical memory connectors or amount of soldered-on memory).

  6. Byte - Wikipedia

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    The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. 1 byte (B) = 8 bits (bit). Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures .

  7. Word addressing - Wikipedia

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    If that memory is arranged in a byte-addressable flat address space using 8-bit bytes, then there are 65,536 (2 16) valid addresses, from 0 to 65,535, each denoting an independent 8 bits of memory. If instead it is arranged in a word-addressable flat address space using 32-bit words, then there are 16,384 (2 14 ) valid addresses, from 0 to ...

  8. 64-bit computing - Wikipedia

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    The ARM AArch64 Virtual Memory System Architecture allows from 48 to 56 bits for virtual memory and, for any given processor, from 32 to 56 bits for physical memory. [ 31 ] The DEC Alpha specification requires minimum of 43 bits of virtual memory address space (8 TB) to be supported, and hardware need to check and trap if the remaining ...

  9. Bus error - Wikipedia

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    Most CPUs are byte-addressable, where each unique memory address refers to an 8-bit byte. Most CPUs can access individual bytes from each memory address, but they generally cannot access larger units (16 bits, 32 bits, 64 bits and so on) without these units being "aligned" to a specific boundary (the x86 platform being a notable exception).