byten.
/bʌɪt/, U.S. /baɪt/ Computing.
A group of eight consecutive bits operated on as a unit in a computer.
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1964 Blaauw & 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.
1964 IBM Jrnl. Res. & Developm. 8 97/1 When a byte of data appears from an I/O device, the CPU is seized, dumped, used and restored.
1967 P. A. Stark Digital Computer Programming xix. 351 The normal operations in fixed point are done on four bytes at a time.
1968 Dataweek 24 Jan. 1/1 Tape reading and writing is at from 34,160 to 192,000 bytes per second.
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