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(thing) by novalis (1.2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Wed Apr 19 2000 at 22:46:23

See Dword. In the Intel processor architecture, a word is 16 bits, so a double word is 32 bits. Used in discussions of assembly language or machine language.

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