In computer architecture, 24-bit integers, memory addresses, or other data units are those that are 24 bits (3 octets) wide.
The IBM System/360, announced in 1964, was a popular computer system with 24-bit addressing and 32-bit general registers and arithmetic.
[citation needed] The 65816 is a microprocessor and microcontroller family with 16-bit registers and 24-bit bank switched addressing.
[2] Several fixed-point digital signal processors have a 24-bit data bus, selected as the basic word length because it gave the system a reasonable precision for the processing audio (sound).
[4][failed verification] OpenCL has a built-in intrinsic for multiplication (mul24()) with two 24-bit integers, returning a 32-bit result.