On 11 Feb 05  17:50:20, MIKE ROSS got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Hardware MB question

 WC>> Called a "nibble" rather than a byte.
 DC> But, the real question is which one came first?
 
 DC> I suspect that it was 'byte'.
 
 BK> I suspect you are right.
 
 DC> But, is that true?

 MR> Wouldn't dibit come before nibble? After all they would have to deal
 MR> with 2 multivibrator outputs to count to 4.

Well, bits came before bytes.  After all, 8 bits = one byte.  


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