Comments by "Digital Nomad" (@digitalnomad9985) on "What the Fart is a Byte?" video.

  1. Yes, and there were a few systems that had a 12 bit data bus. That value could theoretically have been represented by 3 hexadecimal digits (3 nibbles in modern parlance). Or it could be represented by 4 octal digits. I don't know if some instructions operated on 6 bits for backward compatibility, that would make octal more convenient for use in assembly language programming.
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  2. In the case of the advent of microcomputers, the definition of "computer word length" and 8 bits both applied to 8 bit systems (computers with an 8 bit data bus). Thereafter, and even a little before, buss width was always a multiple of 8, so the 8 bit byte could be used to standardize information quantity with a universal unit without having to resort to bits.
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