![]() ![]() Not all the questions are about computers either, so everyone gets a fair chance.Īssembly Language Programmer in Congress. A new feature where I ask a random or trivial question and you get to provide an answer. In fact, my guess is that they exist merely because some graduate student somewhere had to get his PhD. I don’t know any programmer friend who uses these terms. Today, however, things have gotten silly:Ģ bits is often referred to as a tayste or tydbit. Believe me, when you were a young nerd such as I, those terms had meaning. I never really used a nybble in my programming, but there was an Apple II computer magazine called Nibble (which was a play on the major computer magazine of the day, Byte).ġ6 bits was known as a word. I’m familiar with that term from my early years in computing. ![]() A half byte is 4 bits, which is lovingly called a nybble. On today’s computers, there are 8 bits in a byte. Incidentally, one piece was 12 1/2 cents, which is why the US Stock Market for years used 12 1/2 cents, or 1/8th of a dollar as the basic increment stocks could move up or down. Two pieces were equal to one quarter real. The coin could be broken up into smaller pieces. The Spanish Dollar, or eight reales coin, was used as money in the early United States. The two bits = 25¢ thing comes from the old pieces of eight. ![]() Continuing with my byte-madness from last Friday’s blog entry, how about some more computer storage terms? But this time I delve into the utterly trivial, useless, and fun.Ī bit is a bit. ![]()
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