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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by npongratz on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @12:15PM (#6013387)
I knew bytes were ambiguously sized, but I had thought a nibble/nybble was (A) always half an octet, and (B) a fun Apple coders magazine [0].

But sure enough, I was very wrong on (A): Apple II disk writes were done in "sets of 5-bit or, later, 6-bit nibbles" [1].

Thank you, chiph!

[0] http://www.nibblemagazine.com/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibble#History

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Re:How ASCII lost and unicode won by chiph on Tuesday July 09, 2013 @02:04PM (#6014115)
There's probably some variation in the terminology, but I always used these terms:

    bit
    nibble (4 bits)
    nybble (6 bits)
    byte (8 bits)
    word (16 bits)
    :
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