-> But, the real question is which one came first?
 -> I suspect that it was 'byte'.

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

Intel's 4004 & 8008.  But "byte" came into the IT lexicon in
1964 with IBM's introduction of 32-bit System-360, to replace
the 36-bit 709X series.

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