->> 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'.

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

 Almost bought one of the 4 bit units, once. Decided I didn't
 want to get into something that far back on the evolutionary
 scale.

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