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On a 16 bit i80386 machine a nibble represents 4 bits or half of a byte. A byte represents 8 bits. A word represents 16 bits or 2 bytes. On 32 bit machines the DWORD(double word) is available and represents 32 bits or 4 bytes. On the newer 64 bit machines a QWORD represents 64 bits or 8 bytes of data. QWORD stands for QuadWord or Quadruple Word. On modern computers, a single character consumes 2 bytes of data in memory. So the word cat would consume 6 bytes. These are known as DBCS or double-byte character sets.

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