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byte Computers.|baɪt|
[Arbitrary, prob. influenced by bit n.4 and bite n.]
A group of eight consecutive bits operated on as a unit in a computer.
1964Blaauw & Brooks in IBM Systems Jrnl. III. 122 An 8-bit unit of information is fundamental to most of the formats [of the System/360]. A consecutive group of n such units constitutes a field of length n. Fixed-length fields of length one, two, four, and eight are termed bytes, halfwords, words, and double words respectively. 1964IBM Jrnl. Res. & Developm. VIII. 97/1 When a byte of data appears from an I/O device, the CPU is seized, dumped, used and restored. 1967P. A. Stark Digital Computer Programming xix. 351 The normal operations in fixed point are done on four bytes at a time. 1968Dataweek 24 Jan. 1/1 Tape reading and writing is at from 34,160 to 192,000 bytes per second. |