Refers to the number of bits that can be processed or transmitted in parallel, or thenumber of bits used for single element in adata format. The term is often applied to thefollowing: microprocessor: indicates the width of theregisters. A 16-bit microprocessor can processdata and memory addresses that are representedby 16 bits. bus : indicates the …
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Windows Application Programming Interface
The Windows application programming interface (API) is the user-mode system programminginterface to the Windows operating system family. Prior to the introduction of 64-bit versions ofWindows, the programming interface to the 32-bit versions of the Windows operating systems wascalled the Win32 API to distinguish it from the original 16-bit Windows API, which was the program-ming interface …
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