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'''during which time''' still doesn't really roll of the tongue, ne? Maybe it still needs some more refrasing. We are trying to get accross that:
#During an extended period of time mostly 32-bit consumer computers were fabricated.
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:"When 32-bit first became created" - that was at least [[IBM System/360|1964]], and may have been before that. Interestingly, it had ''fewer'' bits per word than [[IBM 7090|IBM's previous line of mainframe computers]]. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 04:29, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
::And the main effect the 32-bitness of S/360 had on computers was that it popularized the 8-bit byte, although that was not just a consequence of its 32-bitness, it was also a consequence of it using byte addressing. That byte size was adopted also by a number of 16-bit byte-addressable processors, such as the [[PDP-11]]. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 07:43, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
== Is the lead invisible for anyone else? ==
I click Edit, and it's just not there. But "<nowiki>{{N-bit|32|(4 [[Octet (computing)|octets]])}}</nowiki>" is. Unless it's just me, someone should fix that. [[User:InedibleHulk|InedibleHulk]] [[User_Talk:InedibleHulk|(talk)]] 01:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
:The first two sentences of the introductory paragraph come from [[Template:N-bit|the <nowiki>{{N-bit}}</nowiki> template]]. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 02:30, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
::Needlessly complicated. Fancy, though. Thanks. [[User:InedibleHulk|InedibleHulk]] [[User_Talk:InedibleHulk|(talk)]] 04:58, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
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