kbyte
kbyte is the abbreviation of kilobyte.
kbyte is the abbreviation of kibibyte.
Meaning of kilobyte
Noun
kilobyte (plural kilobytes)
- One thousand (10³, or 1,000) bytes.
- The data word processor 606 handles the in-flow and out-flow of byte-oriented input/output data and interleaved signals at a rate of, for example, 500 kilobytes per second. Instruction processing rates of four to eight per microsecond are required for such a data flow.1969, Harold R. Dell, HIGH-DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, US Patent 3638185
- A kibibyte.
- It is assumed herein that each block includes 32 bytes, each sector includes 1 kilobyte, the buffer memory 116 includes 4 kilobytes, and read data is represented by one double word or 64 bits, as one word in this case consists of 32 bits.1969, Hisashi Horikoshi, MEMORY CONTROL SYSTEM, US Patent 3618041
Meaning of kibibyte
Noun
kibibyte (plural kibibytes)
- Strictly, 2¹⁰ (1,024) bytes, as opposed to a kilobyte.
- The computer's operating system and applications all fit with within 32 kibibytes of read-only memory (ROM); much of the code in the ROM was personally written by Bill Gates.2018, Simson L. Garfinkel, Rachel H. Grunspan, The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, New York: Sterling, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- KiB
Forms of kbyte
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Questions about kbyte
- What is kbyte the abbreviation of?
- Kbyte is the abbreviation of kilobyte.
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