On 1/18/2018 3:23 AM, AndyW wrote:
On 17/01/2018 16:02, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
On 17/01/2018 15:55, J1MBO ... wrote:
On 1/17/2018 3:51 PM, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
On 17/01/2018 14:54, J1MBO ... wrote:
On 1/17/2018 10:39 AM, Gareth's Downstairs Computer wrote:
Has anybody yet played with one of these, for it seems to
offer quite a lot for a (relatively) small outlay?

The only 8 bits in the ADC / DAC seems a little limiting?
bits of what? .... tee hee

Bit is a contraction of BInary digiT, or Binary digIT.

didn't know that .....

And then taking a big BITE of them, 8 bits at a time, except
that it is spelt BYTE to reduce confusion.

Although in the olden days (1965 onwards) in the PDP5 and PDP8
a byte was only 6 bits.

the terms nibble/nybble and munch seem to have fallen into disuse, I
guess they pushed the joke too far

Andy



It's still used in some assembler coding, where a byte contains two
decimal digits (0x00 to 0x99). Each digit is contained in a nibble.
But outside of that, I agree - I haven't seen it used any more, either.

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