• TWeaK@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I want to believe…

      Also halfway between a bit and a byte is a nibble.

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        1 year ago

        I do love scientice’s collective sense of humour. I’d give good odds it was initially suggested down the pub (or similar).

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        QBasic came with NIBBLES.BAS, a snake game using text-mode characters as “pixels”. Specifically it faked a 80x50 “pixel” grid using the standard 80x25 text screen where each 8-bit (=1 byte) text character made up two monochrome pixels using ▄ or ▀ or █ or an empty space.

        I assume the name derived from the fact that, in a way, one pixel was “using half a byte”, i. e. a nibble.