Computer number format still split that memory into eight-bit pieces. This is called byte-addressable memory. Historically, many CPUs read data in some multiple of eight bits. Because the byte size of eight bits is so common, but the definition is not standardized, the term octet is sometimes used to explicitly describe an eight bit sequence. A "nibble" (sometimes "nybble"), is a number composed of four bits. Being a half-byte, the nibble was named as a play on words. A person may need several nibbles for one bite from something; similarly, a nybble is a part of a byte. Because four bits allow for
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