🇺🇦 haxadecimal@b0rk Early on, 8 and 16 bits were not common sizes, though very few early machines used 32. The word "byte" was created by the developers of the IBM 7030 "STRETCH" 64-bit .supercomputer (1960). Its integer and logical instructions could operate on groups of bits smaller than a word, from 1 to 8 bits. Most I/O was done in 8-bit increments, using an 8-bit character code unique to Stretch. The sub-word data was addressed on it boundaries, making a power-of-two word size important.
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