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submitted 1 year ago by likeaduck@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] DaudAfandi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is this true?

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I want to believe...

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

[–] player_entity_t@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

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.

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