On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> By the way does anyone recall why a 1 & 0 is called a bit
> Simple on the old Teletypes the reader fingers looked like drill bits
I've always heard it was a contraction of Binary INteger.
> and there are 8 bits to a bite?
It's usually spelled "byte" and I think it is a small joke, akin to 4 bits
being called a "nybble".
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