History of Word

	Revision 11 . . June 11, 2001 3:47 pm by Hornlo [link to computing]
	Revision 10 . . June 9, 2001 12:19 am by Janet Davis [A slightly better definition of ''word'' in the linguistic sense.]
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In relation to computers, a word refers to a small collection of bits. Modern computers use 2, 4, or 8 bytes per word (16, 32, or 64 bits per word). Older computers sometimes used 36 bit words and words other than 16, 32, or 64 bits per word. Also of note, the earliest computers did not use binary representation. They used [base 10]? representation. Word is also the name of a word processor produced by Microsoft.

In computing, an integral data type. Also, when capitalized, a word processor produced by Microsoft.