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
One-to-one computing there are sometimes individual schools going 1:1 or experimenting. Bombay school 1:1: Tiki School: Uddevalla Municipality 1:1 Chromebooks: Oak Lawn Kimbolton, UK Please note that Ranchodistrict are having an auction selling their 570 iPads which greatly reduces the credibility of a report they are swapping their chromebooks for iPads. One-to-one computing In the context of education, one-to-one computing (sometimes abbreviated as "1:1") refers to academic institutions, such as schools or colleges, that allow each enrolled student to use an electronic device in order to access the Internet, digital course materials, and digital textbooks. The concept has been actively explored and