At 09:25 AM 1/6/2000 -0800, Jeanne Pitts wrote:
>Actually that should read - every bit, nibble, and byte counted (anyone
>remember the nibble?  I believe it was 4 bits and was an HP3000 term).

Yep, nibble is 4 bits, but sorry, the term 'nibble' pre-dates the HP3K...

I believe it may have been arrived as a part of the packed-decimal format,
which was developed as a part of COBOL simply to help conserve storage of
numeric values when indeed machine sizes and storage capacities were
measured in k-bytes. (However, I'm sure Wirt, or someone will locate a URL
that will give us a more concise answer...:)



/jf
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