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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.
#That 32-bit is a designation for the collective of those computers.
[[User:Gerbrant|Shinobu]] 21:11, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
:I agree. I dislike it. It sounds like corporatese. Changing to "in which" here is enough to fix it. --[[User:Shlomital|Shlomital]] 12:52, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
==Incorrect logic==
The previous author tried to make a convoluted connection between 4 billion bits and 4 GB of Random Access memory which is completely incorrect and will confused people.
[[Special:Contributions/108.17.109.131|108.17.109.131]] ([[User talk:108.17.109.131|talk]]) 14:42, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
==32-bit applications for Windows 95/98==
Windows 95 and Windows 98 weren't "applications", they were operating systems with a mix of 16-bit and 32-bit code. They supported both 16-bit (DOS and Win16) and 32-bit (Win32) applications. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 19:01, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
==32-bit applications for Mac OS==
Mac OS supported applications with at least 24-bit pointers, and later versions supported applications with 32-bit pointers; the 68000 and all later 68k processors, and the PowerPC processors, supported 32-bit arithmetic as well, so the apps for the Mac weren't 16-bit apps. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 19:01, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
:For example, Office 95 was available in 32-bit form[http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnaroffdev/html/msdn_off95api.asp]. [[User:Guy Harris|Guy Harris]] ([[User talk:Guy Harris|talk]]) 21:46, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
== Adding to the History of 32 bit ==
This article is kinda short, someone should add a part on when 32-bit first became created & common & what kind of results that had on computers. [[User:Trever1997|T97π]] ([[User talk:Trever1997|talk]]) 04:13, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
:"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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