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(...) I've been around computer hardware since the intel 8008 (about 1978), and a byte has always been 8 bits, and a nibble 4 bits. I do not claim to know all architectures though). In some machines 16 bits is a word, and in others a half word, 32 (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Other-sized bytes are much older than that. I think 8 bits became the standard in the 60s or early 70s. I believe the PDP-10, a 36-bit computer, used 9-bit bytes. Hmmm. We've got this thing called "The Internet". I bet it's good for finding (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) In early mainframes the byte size varied quite a bit (pun intended). The first mainframe I worked on was a Univac 1100 which had a 36 bit word which could be referenced as either six 6-bit bytes or four 9-bit bytes. A byte is generally defined (...) (21 years ago, 26-Jun-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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