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Re: Byte

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Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> The word may slightly precede S/360. Here is one article from 1960 talking
>> about the “Harvest” system that uses it (p.23)
>> http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/afips/1960-05_%2317.pdf
>> 
>> The Google ngram viewer is useful for determining the date of appearance of
>> a word, or would be if the publication dates weren’t often wrong. Between
>> that and being unable to view the title page of many books and papers to
>> verify the date, one reference is all I had the patience for, but there
>> appear to be others, but not much from before 1960.
>> 
>
>Wikipedia has a decent article:
>  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
>
>I’ve seen “syllable” used on the B-5500.

And on the B3500, both of which originated in the old Electrodata
plant in Pasadena where the B300 preceeded both.  For the B3500,
syllables referred to the instruction operands (i.e. A syllable,
B syllable or C syllable).

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