Brief Notes on Computer Word and Byte Sizes

I often wonder how much better computers would be if they were designed from scratch with todays knowledge and manufacturing ability.

Would they be that much better?

>Words are still 32 bits, because the nomenclature is established. A pair of 64-bit registers together is said to hold a “quadword”. That is, what a “word” is is was defined by the original history of the architecture; after that, it’s likely historical.

https://cse.unl.edu/~goddard/Courses/CSCE351/IntelArchitectu...

A byte is eight bits, a word is 2 bytes (16 bits), a doubleword is 4 bytes (32 bits), and a quadword is 8 bytes (64 bits)

I think I'll stick to the Intel definitions.