Do you know your Bits from your Bytes? How about a Munch!
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Ok, I'm not a professional Progammer like the rest of you. I am a Electronic Techician, but love to progam (what little I can do) in my spare time. Anyway, the other day I was reading some material on PIC's and it briefly touched on the terms: Bit, Nibble, Byte, Gobble, and then a Munch!. Now i understand the first four terms, but I have never heard of a munch!. According to the material I was reading, the word didn't catch on as well as the other words when first invented in the states. Well I put this questions to your Boffins, what is a Munch :confused:. Is it two Gobbles, that would be my guess! :-O --- Peter M
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Ok, I'm not a professional Progammer like the rest of you. I am a Electronic Techician, but love to progam (what little I can do) in my spare time. Anyway, the other day I was reading some material on PIC's and it briefly touched on the terms: Bit, Nibble, Byte, Gobble, and then a Munch!. Now i understand the first four terms, but I have never heard of a munch!. According to the material I was reading, the word didn't catch on as well as the other words when first invented in the states. Well I put this questions to your Boffins, what is a Munch :confused:. Is it two Gobbles, that would be my guess! :-O --- Peter M
Peter Mayhew wrote: what is a Munch Could it be a 16 bit word? :~ Two bites is a munch. Right? -- Shine like a mirror reflecting, like the sun shines. Something that comes from above, when all that remains falls below.
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Ok, I'm not a professional Progammer like the rest of you. I am a Electronic Techician, but love to progam (what little I can do) in my spare time. Anyway, the other day I was reading some material on PIC's and it briefly touched on the terms: Bit, Nibble, Byte, Gobble, and then a Munch!. Now i understand the first four terms, but I have never heard of a munch!. According to the material I was reading, the word didn't catch on as well as the other words when first invented in the states. Well I put this questions to your Boffins, what is a Munch :confused:. Is it two Gobbles, that would be my guess! :-O --- Peter M
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Ok, I'm not a professional Progammer like the rest of you. I am a Electronic Techician, but love to progam (what little I can do) in my spare time. Anyway, the other day I was reading some material on PIC's and it briefly touched on the terms: Bit, Nibble, Byte, Gobble, and then a Munch!. Now i understand the first four terms, but I have never heard of a munch!. According to the material I was reading, the word didn't catch on as well as the other words when first invented in the states. Well I put this questions to your Boffins, what is a Munch :confused:. Is it two Gobbles, that would be my guess! :-O --- Peter M
Peter Mayhew wrote: Nibble The correct old-school spelling is "nybble" ;) I've never heard of a gobble or munch. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
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I would agree, yes Bit = 1 logic state Nibble = 4 bits Byte = 8 bits Gobble = 16 bits So I would personally say that it would be logical (if you excuse the pun) that: Munch = 32 bits (But this is a guess!!) I just now curious what 64 bits is.:cool: Suggestions Welcome! --- Peter M
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I would agree, yes Bit = 1 logic state Nibble = 4 bits Byte = 8 bits Gobble = 16 bits So I would personally say that it would be logical (if you excuse the pun) that: Munch = 32 bits (But this is a guess!!) I just now curious what 64 bits is.:cool: Suggestions Welcome! --- Peter M
Peter Mayhew wrote: I just now curious what 64 bits is. Gluttony? :) -- Shine like a mirror reflecting, like the sun shines. Something that comes from above, when all that remains falls below.
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I would agree, yes Bit = 1 logic state Nibble = 4 bits Byte = 8 bits Gobble = 16 bits So I would personally say that it would be logical (if you excuse the pun) that: Munch = 32 bits (But this is a guess!!) I just now curious what 64 bits is.:cool: Suggestions Welcome! --- Peter M
chomp...crunch..."gobble,gobble,gobble,gobble"...scarf...:~ Steve
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Peter Mayhew wrote: Nibble The correct old-school spelling is "nybble" ;) I've never heard of a gobble or munch. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Michael Dunn wrote: I've never heard of a gobble or munch Good...i'm not the only one :) "Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!" - Alex Barylski :)
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Ok, I'm not a professional Progammer like the rest of you. I am a Electronic Techician, but love to progam (what little I can do) in my spare time. Anyway, the other day I was reading some material on PIC's and it briefly touched on the terms: Bit, Nibble, Byte, Gobble, and then a Munch!. Now i understand the first four terms, but I have never heard of a munch!. According to the material I was reading, the word didn't catch on as well as the other words when first invented in the states. Well I put this questions to your Boffins, what is a Munch :confused:. Is it two Gobbles, that would be my guess! :-O --- Peter M
I googled it and came up with this site[^] It has more computer jargon than you will ever want to know. I don't know how accurate it is but, there is some humorous stuff there. Gary Kirkham A working Program is one that has only unobserved bugs I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks
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Peter Mayhew wrote: Nibble The correct old-school spelling is "nybble" ;) I've never heard of a gobble or munch. --Mike-- The Internet is a place where absolutely nothing happens. -- Strong Bad 1ClickPicGrabber - Grab & organize pictures from your favorite web pages, with 1 click! My really out-of-date homepage Sonork-100.19012 Acid_Helm
Yup - that matches my recollection. Bits, nybbles, bytes, and words - nothing bigger has ever been "official" in the lingo. Rockwell or Burroughs made a line of 12-bit machines used widely in banks and finance, but as far as I know no one ever coined a term for that ridiculous instruction size. It is ok for women not to like sports, so long as they nod in the right places and bring beers at the right times.
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A word can either be 16-bits or 32-bits or even 64-bits. It's the native integer type of the platform. In the case of X86, which started out as 16-bits, a word came to be identified as 16bits in the PC world. If you worked in the UNIX world, a word is 32-bits. I don't believe gobble and munch were ever accepted terms. Thanks, Wes
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A word can either be 16-bits or 32-bits or even 64-bits. It's the native integer type of the platform. In the case of X86, which started out as 16-bits, a word came to be identified as 16bits in the PC world. If you worked in the UNIX world, a word is 32-bits. I don't believe gobble and munch were ever accepted terms. Thanks, Wes
Wesner Moise wrote: It's the native integer type of the platform. The definition I've seen is that a word is two or more bytes (
chars). -- Shine like a mirror reflecting, like the sun shines. Something that comes from above, when all that remains falls below.