Timeline for What is the history of why bytes are eight bits?
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| S Aug 3 at 12:59 | history | suggested | Rose Wills | CC BY-SA 4.0 | fixed typo |
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| Aug 11, 2016 at 21:06 | history | edited | user22815 | CC BY-SA 3.0 | edited body |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 18:56 | comment | added | Jay Elston | The 8-bit byte and 16-bit word size used by the PDP series may have also played a factor in the popularity of 8-bit bytes. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 13:37 | comment | added | Ramhound | A solution to the "pre-electron" computer is to say modern computer or I suppose the electron computer. Even today you could build a mechanical computer. It wasn't until we started to use electron fields to our advantage did we build a micro-processor. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 4:47 | history | edited | James Anderson | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Corrected factual error Very First CPU -> veryforst Microprocessor |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 4:05 | comment | added | DXM | I guess it would help if I didn't screw up the link as I was entering in. I also I apologize for saying "first CPU". Since I was quoting the wiki page, I should have said "first microprocessor". That's what I meant. Sorry about that. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 4:04 | history | edited | DXM | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 13 characters in body |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 4:02 | comment | added | DXM | and there were computing devices in 19th century and I'm sure egyptians had some kind of calculator pot. That info came from the Wikipedia page that I linked. Like I said, I'm not a hardware expert and I'm certainly not a historian, but if you feel that I'm so far off, you might want to go update that wikipedia page. | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 3:20 | comment | added | Stephen C | "Very first CPU (around 1970s) ...". You need to do some reading on the history of computing!! The very first CPU for a von Neumann architecture computer was built during World War II ... or before (depending on whose version of history you believe.) | |
| Nov 17, 2011 at 2:37 | history | answered | DXM | CC BY-SA 3.0 |