GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

GK

TECHNOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Word length of a home computer is -
A
32 bits
B
4 bits
C
24 bits
D
8 bits
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Word length of a Personal Computer is 8 bits. The most common processors are/were 8 bit, 16 bit, 32 bit or 64 bit. These are the WORD lengths of the processor. Actually half of a WORD is a BYTE, whatever the numerical length is.

Detailed explanation-2: -WORD (16 bits/2 bytes) DWORD (32 bits/4 bytes) QWORD (64 bits/8 bytes)

Detailed explanation-3: -Each data register can store a binary word of usually 8 or 16 bits. The number of bits determines the size of the number that can be stored.

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