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Why is memory in bytes?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 10/3/2023

The word was made up by Dr. Werner Buchholz at IBM IN 1956 to represent a grouping of bits. At the time, he was working with 6 bit bytes. Today, a byte is 8 bits.

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