Integer conversions too pedantic in 64-bit

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Russel Winder" <russel at russel.org.uk> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1748.1297936806.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> A word is the natural length of an integer item in the processor.
> It is necessarily machine specific.  cf. DEC-10 had 9-bit bytes
> and 36-bit word, IBM 370 has an 8-bit byte and a 32-bit word,
> though addresses were 24-bit.  ix86 follows IBM 8-bit byte and
> 32-bit word.

Right. Programmers may have gotten used to "word" being 2-bytes due to 
things like the Win API and x86 Assemblers not updating their usage for the 
sake of backwards compatibility, but in the EE world where the term 
originates, "word" is device-specific and is very useful as such.

> Do not be afraid of the word.  Fear leads to anger.  Anger
> leads to hate.  Hate leads to suffering. (*)

This version is better:
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