I've come to the conclusion that the entire purpose of these forums (a facade, and very clever I must say) is to confuse people into believing that some things are not what they seem (*cough*WORD*/cough*). You have poisoned people's minds and soon they will have a mental break down. Your entire plot is to annihilate western culture as we know it. Yes. I've figured you out, BotDev forums. I'm on to you............you should be careful, or I may post something else like this (as I can't actually do anything....BUT I'M WATCHING YOU!)
Okay.
BYTE = 8-bits
WORD = 16-bits on a 16-bit system
DWORD = 32-bits on a 16-bit system
QWORD = 64-bits on a 16-bit system
LIES!!! SHOUT IS PART OF "THEY"!
A WORD's size is entirely dependant on the machine! THERE IS NO SINGLE DEFINATE SIZE OF A WORD (and hence all multiple are different)!
If you are referring to my post, then yes, WORD is a controversial term since it does have different values on different systems and I'm sorry for stating its maximum value is 65535. HOWEVER, considering the fact that a port's maximum value is 65535 and we were talking about visual basic code, which's compiled code will only work on Windows systems, then it is a given that the maximum value of a WORD for that purpose is 65535.
Many things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.
Quote from: Lenny on September 14, 2005, 10:55 PM
Many things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.
Uhhh....?
Quote from: MyndFyre on September 14, 2005, 11:04 PM
Quote from: Lenny on September 14, 2005, 10:55 PM
Many things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.
Uhhh....?
It says DWORD in regedit for integers.
Quote from: rabbit on September 14, 2005, 10:45 PM
I've come to the conclusion that the entire purpose of these forums (a facade, and very clever I must say) is to confuse people into believing that some things are not what they seem (*cough*WORD*/cough*). You have poisoned people's minds and soon they will have a mental break down. Your entire plot is to annihilate western culture as we know it. Yes. I've figured you out, BotDev forums. I'm on to you............you should be careful, or I may post something else like this (as I can't actually do anything....BUT I'M WATCHING YOU!)
Huh? I corrected him and said he should have said 16-bit integer and not WORD because it makes more sense. What's the big problem? And you say you're sorry for being banned? I don't think this topic helps...
Quote from: MyndFyre on September 14, 2005, 11:04 PMQuote from: Lenny on September 14, 2005, 10:55 PMMany things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.
Uhhh....?
Notice that REG_DWORD (a "double word") returns only 4 bytes of data. If the registry were 32bit, returning
one word would suffice to give us 4 bytes of data. :)
Quote from: Kp on September 14, 2005, 11:08 PM
Quote from: MyndFyre on September 14, 2005, 11:04 PMQuote from: Lenny on September 14, 2005, 10:55 PMMany things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.
Uhhh....?
Notice that REG_DWORD (a "double word") returns only 4 bytes of data. If the registry were 32bit, returning one word would suffice to give us 4 bytes of data. :)
OMG! The BotDev people have also infected Wikipedia:
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The most common microprocessors used in personal computers have the IA-32 architecture (for instance, the Intel Pentiums and AMD Athlons). This architecture is an extension of the original Intel 8086 design which had a word size of 16 bits. The IA-32 processors still support 8086 programs, so the meaning of "word" in the IA-32 context was not changed, and is still said to be 16 bits, despite the fact that they may in actuality operate more like a machine with a 32 bit word size.
(emphasis added)
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_%28computer_science%29
SEE!! I TOLD YOU!
And I said I was sorry for being bad. This thread isn't being bad, it's a mixture of boredom and stupidity, so HAH!
Anyway, Wikipedia is open-edit, so see (http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861713980/word.html) some (http://www.bartleby.com/61/86/W0218600.html) real (http://www.google.com/search?q=define%3AWORD&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official) definitions (http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=WORD&x=25&y=27) of (http://www.infoplease.com/dictionary/word) the (http://www.ultralingua.net/index.html?service=ee&text=Word) term (http://www.rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=word). Thanks.