[icholy]

A byte is the smallest addressable unit, not a bit.

[ILyesMk2]

Oopsie, good catch! I intended it as 'the smallest space X can take'

i corrected it.

[icholy]

It's a pretty impressive write up.

[jecel]

Nearly all current computers address bytes, but in the past we had many computers that addressed words instead as well as processors like the Texas Instruments 34010 that did address bits.