Re: Efficiency Question : bits vs. bytes (or anything else, for that matter)

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From: Jim Trigg
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 14:41

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In article <4k1q4o$5cn@solutions.solon.com> kjm@quirk.physics.ucsb.edu
( Kevin Miller) writes:

> kkto@csd.hku.hk (Isaac To ~{6E<RG?~}) writes:

>> A more crazy application pack 8 nibbles to the same word and the
>> only thing he want to do to it is to add up them nibble by nibble
>> as unsigned integers and there's guaranteed to be no overflow.

> I would assume that a nibble is a subdivision of a byte.  But just
> out of curiosity, exactly how much *is* a nibble?

A nibble is half a byte, or 4 bits.  It was frequently used on Apple
II computers, although I don't remember why.

Just a Thought,
Jim Trigg

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