From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   Kaz Kylheku  wrote:   
   > On 2009-12-29, Jon Harrop  wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > You must be using ``quad word'' differently from the rest of the world,   
   > where it is understood to be 64 bits, according to this convention:   
      
   > 16 bits: word   
   > 32 bits: double word   
   > 64 bits: quad word   
      
   That is VAX.  Everyone else uses 32 bits for a word.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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