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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Neal, post: 26051338, member: 43872&quot;]I&#039;ve always thought that the idea that there are eight bits in a byte in computers comes, at least subconsciously, from the eight bits in a Spanish Milled Dollar. Of course, there are good engineering reasons for the numbers, but the terminology seems more than coincidental.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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