Byte using six-bit and nine-bit bytes were common into the 1960s. These machines most commonly had memory words of 12, 24, 36, 48 or 60 bits, corresponding to two, four, six, eight or 10 six-bit bytes. In this era, bytes in the instruction stream were often referred to as "syllables", before the term byte became common. The modern "de-facto" standard of eight bits, as documented in ISO/IEC 2382-1:1993, is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte (2 in power of 8 = 256, where zero signifies number as well). The international standard IEC 80000-13
Byte Information Exchange in 2001. Some members created a new service, based on an open-source version of CoSy, called NLZ (Noise Level Zero) where they continue what remained of the service, with many of the same conferences and topics that were active at the end of Delphi's ownership. Other CoSy-based conferencing systems of the same era still survive including CIX. Byte Information Exchange BYTE Information eXchange (BIX) was an online service created by "BYTE". "BYTE" in the October 1984 issue announced BYTEnet, "a project in computer conferencing", with 200 beta testers who received free service during the "experiment". The magazine formally announced BIX