No, a word typically refers to a natural integer or intstruction size, so 32-bit or 64-bit.
The term byte I'm using comes from the C/c++ standards that define it as platform dependent, and that is it's traditional definition. It's only after hardware standardized on 8-bits that it got that meaning.
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octet.binary Nbitwhere N is platform dependent is called aWORDNo, a word typically refers to a natural integer or intstruction size, so 32-bit or 64-bit.
The term
byteI'm using comes from the C/c++ standards that define it as platform dependent, and that is it's traditional definition. It's only after hardware standardized on 8-bits that it got that meaning.