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Why there are 8 bits in a byte 2024?

Noah Campbell | 2023-04-27 04:04:57 | page views:1588
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Oliver Lewis

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Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. ... The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the eight-bit size.
2023-04-27 04:04:57

Stella Cooper

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Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit of memory in many computer architectures. ... The popularity of major commercial computing architectures has aided in the ubiquitous acceptance of the eight-bit size.
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