In the style guides I used at my last two employers (Fortune 500 semiconductor
companies), "16-bit" is hyphenated when used as an adjective before words like
"register", "bus", "value", "port", etc.
But when referring to the width of a data path or something similar, the
preferred form was the
> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".
Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus".
>
>
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Original message From: Doug Date:
9/23/19 18:36 (GMT-05:00) To: "An email list for people using Adobe
FrameMaker software." Subject: Re: [Framers]
[WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or &
Doug Baily wrote:
> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".
Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus".
>
True enough. But if the subject of interest is the auxiliary bus rather than
the "it" that features the auxiliary bus, I'd argue that the bus deserves to b
>
> >>> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".
> >>Or another way: "It features an 16-bit auxiliary data bus".
>
> >True enough. But if the subject of interest is the auxiliary bus rather
> than the "it" that
>features the auxiliary bus, I'd argue that the bus deserves to be the
>
September 24, 2019 10:09 AM
To: An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software.
Subject: Re: [Framers] [WTF ramemaker] "16-bit" or "16 bit"
>
> >>> For example, "the auxiliary data bus is 16 bits wide".
> >>Or another way: &q
