BotDev Conspiracy!

[rabbit]

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!)

[shout]

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

[rabbit]

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)!

[l2k-Shadow]

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.

[Lenny]

Many things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.

[MyndFyre]

Many things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.

Uhhh....?

[shout]

Many things are still stuck in the 16-bit world, i.e the windows registry.

Uhhh....?

It says DWORD in regedit for integers.

[UserLoser.]

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...

[Kp]

Many 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.

[MyndFyre]

Many 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:

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

[rabbit]

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 some real definitions of the term.  Thanks.