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I believe the question you are trying to ask is, "What are bytes" or "What is a byte." Simply put, a byte is a basic unit of measurement of information storage in computer science. The term "byte" comes from "bite," as in the smallest amount of data a computer could "bite" at once. The term byte was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. Originally it was defined in instructions by a 4-bit byte-size field, allowing from one to sixteen bits. A fixed eight-bit byte size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/360.

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