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> A byte may be 8 bits now but it was not always 8 bits.
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Au contraire!
It was the designers of System/360 who invented the word "byte" to mean the
smallest addressable unit of storage, in their case 8 bits. It is others who
have appropriated the word for their own purposes, as has happened with so
many words since language was invented.
Remember Humpty Dumpty!
Mike.
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