{"id":17157,"date":"2018-09-14T17:07:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beautifulwork.org\/?p=17157"},"modified":"2018-09-14T17:07:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T17:07:06","slug":"what-is-16-bit-in-different-contexts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/what-is-16-bit-in-different-contexts\/","title":{"rendered":"What is 16 bit in different contexts ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">Refers to the number of bits that can be processed or transmitted in parallel, or the<br>number of bits used for single element in a<br>data format. The term is often applied to the<br>following:<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">microprocessor: indicates the width of the<br>registers. A 16-bit microprocessor can process<br>data and memory addresses that are represented<br>by 16 bits.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">bus : indicates the number of wires in the bus. <br>A 16-bit bus transmits 16 bits in parallel.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">graphics device, such as a scanner or digital<br>camera : specifies the number of bits used to<br>represent each pixel.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">operating system: refers primarily to the number<br>of bits used to represent memory addresses.<br>Windows 3.x is a 16-bit operating system,<br>whereas Windows 95 and Windows NT\u00a0 are\u00a0 32-bit<br>operating systems.<br><br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\">expansion board: refers to how much data can be<br>sent to and from the card in parallel. 8-bit<br>cards are sometimes called half-size cards<br>whereas 16-bit cards are referred to as full-<br>size cards.<br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>source: https:\/\/www.webopedia.com\/TERM\/1\/16_bit.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/what-is-16-bit-in-different-contexts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is 16 bit in different contexts ?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[139,21],"tags":[256,259,263,477],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trueangle.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}