In ancient times (about 20 years ago), before the home computer and the Internet, a "bit" was something a horse gripped between its teeth, "byte" was a misspelled variant of "bite," "kilo" was drug ...

Just like we measure day-to-day things like time in seconds, mass in kilograms, and height in meters; computer memory and disc space are measured based on bytes. You would have probably come across ...

Everything in the digital world is measured in bits and bytes. Following are the common components in a computer that are measured in bits. See bit and binary values. The "word" size is the number of ...

In the computer, all data are represented as binary digits (bits), and eight binary digits make up one byte. For example, the upper case letter A is 0101001. Numbers however can take several forms.

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...

It can be easy to confuse the two, but there’s a difference, and it has to do with your internet speeds. Joe Supan is a senior writer for CNET covering home technology, broadband, and moving. Prior to ...

I think this belongs in the CPU/mobo forum, because I have a feeling that some piece of legacy hardware has to do with this.<br><br>What is the purpose of having bytes and bits? Wouldn't it be simpler ...