I still think they should have continued with the eating theme
and called two bytes a "chomp" and two "chomps" (or 4 bytes)
a "munch".

Hmmmm...I wonder if the naming convention was done just before
lunch???


-Randie
rohtsji@glenayre.com


> From ezines@SLEEPI.DEMON.CO.UK Wed Mar 18 14:04:47 1998
>
> 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.
>