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What (who) is byte-ordering - definition

SUPPORT BY A HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE OF ACCESSING INDIVIDUAL BYTES OF DATA IN MEMORY
Byte addressable; Byte-addressable; Byte machine; Byte address

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  • ''Byte'' leased an office for one of their West Coast Branch operations in this building in [[Costa Mesa, California]] (pictured in 2022)
AMERICAN COMPUTING MAGAZINE
BYTE Magazine; BYTE magazine; Byte magazine; BiX -- The Byte Information Exchange; BYTE; Byte Magazine; Byte Publications Inc.; BYTE (magazine); BYTE Publications Inc.; BYTE Publications, Inc.; BYTE Publications; Byte Publications, Inc.; Byte Publications; BYTE - The small systems journal; BYTE Books; Byte - the Small Systems Journal; Byte: The Small Systems Journal; BYTE - the small systems journal; BYTE - the Small Systems Journal
<unit> /bi:t/ (B) A component in the machine data hierarchy larger than a bit and usually smaller than a word; now nearly always eight bits and the smallest addressable unit of storage. A byte typically holds one character. A byte may be 9 bits on 36-bit computers. Some older architectures used "byte" for quantities of 6 or 7 bits, and the PDP-10 and IBM 7030 supported "bytes" that were actually bit-fields of 1 to 36 (or 64) bits! These usages are now obsolete, and even 9-bit bytes have become rare in the general trend toward power-of-2 word sizes. The term was coined by Werner Buchholz in 1956 during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch computer. It was a mutation of the word "bite" intended to avoid confusion with "bit". In 1962 he described it as "a group of bits used to encode a character, or the number of bits transmitted in parallel to and from input-output units". The move to an 8-bit byte happened in late 1956, and this size was later adopted and promulgated as a standard by the System/360 operating system (announced April 1964). James S. Jones <jsjones@graceland.edu> adds: I am sure I read in a mid-1970's brochure by IBM that outlined the history of computers that BYTE was an acronym that stood for "Bit asYnchronous Transmission E..?" which related to width of the bus between the Stretch CPU and its CRT-memory (prior to Core). Terry Carr <bear@mich.com> says: In the early days IBM taught that a series of bits transferred together (like so many yoked oxen) formed a Binary Yoked Transfer Element (BYTE). [True origin? First 8-bit byte architecture?] See also nibble, octet. [Jargon File] (2003-09-21)
byte         
  • ''Byte'' leased an office for one of their West Coast Branch operations in this building in [[Costa Mesa, California]] (pictured in 2022)
AMERICAN COMPUTING MAGAZINE
BYTE Magazine; BYTE magazine; Byte magazine; BiX -- The Byte Information Exchange; BYTE; Byte Magazine; Byte Publications Inc.; BYTE (magazine); BYTE Publications Inc.; BYTE Publications, Inc.; BYTE Publications; Byte Publications, Inc.; Byte Publications; BYTE - The small systems journal; BYTE Books; Byte - the Small Systems Journal; Byte: The Small Systems Journal; BYTE - the small systems journal; BYTE - the Small Systems Journal
[b??t]
¦ noun Computing a group of binary digits or bits (usually eight) operated on as a unit.
?such a group as a unit of memory size.
Origin
1960s: an arbitrary formation based on bit4 and bite.
Byte         
  • ''Byte'' leased an office for one of their West Coast Branch operations in this building in [[Costa Mesa, California]] (pictured in 2022)
AMERICAN COMPUTING MAGAZINE
BYTE Magazine; BYTE magazine; Byte magazine; BiX -- The Byte Information Exchange; BYTE; Byte Magazine; Byte Publications Inc.; BYTE (magazine); BYTE Publications Inc.; BYTE Publications, Inc.; BYTE Publications; Byte Publications, Inc.; Byte Publications; BYTE - The small systems journal; BYTE Books; Byte - the Small Systems Journal; Byte: The Small Systems Journal; BYTE - the small systems journal; BYTE - the Small Systems Journal
<publication> A popular computing magazine. http://byte.com. (1997-03-27)

Wikipedia

Byte addressing

Byte addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast to word-addressable architectures, word machines, that access data by word.