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1. バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;; (shmibs@tomo.airen-no-jikken.icu)'s status on Sunday, 06-Dec-2020 09:40:44 JST バツ子（痛いの痛いの飛んでけ;;

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   • ???? beehaw! — the texan bee ????
   @lain @duponin this says it's from the 50shttps://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1977-02/1977_02_BYTE_02-02_Usable_Systems#page/n145/mode/1upseems at first it wasn't 8 specifically, but just a short chunk of bits. a cute way to say that that matched with bit was "bite", but maybe that was too similar, so bytethen char size got fixed later at 8 bits, and byte with it
   • lain (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Dec-2020 09:40:47 JST lain

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     • ???? beehaw! — the texan bee ????
     @duponin 4 bits are a nybble
   • ???? beehaw! — the texan bee ???? (duponin@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 06-Dec-2020 09:40:48 JST ???? beehaw! — the texan bee ????
     Does "byte" has a real connection with "bit"In french it's « octet » which means height "bit"But english looks to be arbitrary