As quoted from Google Books, "Word size refers to the number of bits that a microprocessor can manipulate at one time."
It is somewhat complicated (search for the IEEE floating-point representation for more details), but the basic idea is that you have a few bits for the base, and a few bits for the exponent. The numbers are stored in binary, not in decimal, so the base and the exponent are the numbers "a" and "b" in a x 2b.
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2^32 is amount of blocks that address bus could locate. and each blocks is 64bit because data bus has 64 lines. then maximum number of bits stored in memory is (2^32)*64 bit. By: Mohammad Saghafi Email: mohammads1364@yahoo.com
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There are 16 decimal numbers that can be represented by 4-bits.
The first microprocessor was the 4004. It could handle 4 bits at a time.
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The microprocessor used in the first home computer was the 8080. It could handle 8 bits at a time.
The 8085 is an 8-bit microprocessor. Even though there are some 16-bit registers (BC, DE, HL, SP, PC), with some 16-bit operations that can be performed on them, and a 16-bit address bus, the accumulator (A), the arithmetic logic unit (ALU), and the data bus are 8-bits in size, making the 8085 an 8-bit computer.
queue of 8086 microprocessor is 6 bits
The number 64 in the Nintendo 64 refers to how many bits the CPU can process at a time. Many people mistakenly think the 64 refers to the storage space, but that is incorrect.
As it is 16bit processor it can manupulate 16 bits in one operation
8086 is a 16bit processor.
None. A microprocessor is a control and datapath strung together with a bag of bits to manage IRQs communicating over some kind of system bus.The PowerPC 405 is a microprocessor.
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The first microprocessor to make it into a home computer was the Intel 4004. This chip could process 4 bits at one time. -Harry Dingleberry
group of wires or lines that are used to transfer adress between microprocesssor and i/o devices one way and of 20 bits while data bus uses bothway transfer of data between microprocessor and i/o devices of 16 bits