A tale of two’s complement

Re:A tale of two’s complement by ant6n on Sunday December 28, 2014 @06:39PM (#8807921)

I wonder how many bits the int would have on an 8088.

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Re:A tale of two’s complement by heinrich5991 on Sunday December 28, 2014 @07:42PM (#8808070)

If it's the 20-bit address stuff, `int` would have 32 bits on that platform. (The same as `intptr_t` in C.)

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Re:A tale of two’s complement by rynes on Tuesday December 30, 2014 @04:37AM (#8813912)

The Intel 8088 has an 8 bit bus, and 8 bit registers. The size of an integer is 16 bits.

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Re:A tale of two’s complement by Narishma on Sunday December 28, 2014 @07:19PM (#8808001)

Is there a reason it wouldn't be 16 bits like in C?

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