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echo: classic_computer
to: BOB KLAHN
from: Dan Ceppa
date: 2005-02-08 13:49:16
subject: Hardware MB question

On 07 Feb 05  10:45:00, BOB KLAHN got back to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE 
-> Re: Hardware MB question

 ->> No, if I got it right, they had only 1/2 of the "words"
 ->> available to them.
 
 WC> Called a "nibble" rather than a byte.

 BK> Dang! I remember those now.

But, the real question is which one came first?  

I suspect that it was 'byte'.  


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