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How information is stored?

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Mar 15, 20262210 views

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In the old times 8 bit information and 8 bit computers got along well There was an ASCII of 8 bits so a single byte is a single char and a single and whole position in memory/disk then came 16 bit, 32 bit, and 64 bits computers but I lost the path how chars are stored? Is an 16/32/64 bit ASCII used…

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If it's more than 8 bits, a character is not ASCII by definition. Numbers are still numbers. Bytes are still bytes. Computers with wider data paths just grab more of them at the same time. A 32-bit system will manipulate 4 bytes at a time natively, …

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