Automatic digest processor <LISTSERV@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>, you have some
ATTiTudE writing this:
>Andy,
>You are right. Byte started as BYTE after IBM/360 came into life.
>
>I want to go back to "bit". As far as I had been learnt it comes from
>English word bit what  means smallest piece/amount of information which
>can not by divided or splitted any more.
>

I understood that it was a contraction of "BInary digiT".

>The origin of nibble is quite obscure.

No it isnt, it's half a byte! (read "bite" as in "eat".)

> I think this is a pure modern
>programmer's jargon rarely being met in literature.

Probably thats true.

>
>Regards
>Blad Cap

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