otazka v skole

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caute tato otazka ma dostala v skole:
preco my byte prave osem bitov a nie inak.. co k tomu viedlo ci uz hardwarovo alebo programovo?


kokos a hladal som ale nic relevantne som nenasiel cize sa pytam tu lebo ma to trapi...
inak skusku som urobil aj bez toho ...

[Snake]

Historically, byte size was determined by the number of bits required to represent a single character from a Western character set. Its size was generally determined by the number of possible characters in the supported character set and was chosen to be a divisor of the computer's word size.

The popularity of IBM's System/360 architecture starting in the 1960s and the explosion of microcomputers based on 8-bit microprocessors in the 1980s has made eight bits by far the most common size for a byte. The term octet is widely used as a more precise synonym where ambiguity is undesirable (for example, in protocol definitions).

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