-> 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'.  

IIRC the first microprocessor was a 4 bit data bus unit,
soon to be followed by the 8 bit data bus.
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