Wtf i’m only realizing this now! Wtf after 30 years!!! Aaarrgggg
Even now it took me 30 minutes to figure it out.
We still love you!
That took a bit of time for me too
How am I just hearing about this now?
NonNewtonianWare
I love how everyone both believes this but is so upset that they didn’t realize that they need confirmation
Wait until you learn about wetware.
What’s next… Underware?
semper ubi sub ubi
Half-chubware
FIRMware is just SOFTware that’s HARD to INSTALL.
Is this true?
I want to believe…
Also halfway between a bit and a byte is a nibble.
I do love scientice’s collective sense of humour. I’d give good odds it was initially suggested down the pub (or similar).
Science pubs are some of the best pubs.
The fact that Java compiles into Jars always makes me smile.
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.
Bro
:O
Oof me too