A computer term used to designate either color depth or a unit of data for integer-based computing. One octet equals eight bits, or one byte, so early computers and graphics processing made use of a b [..]

8-bit is a measure of computer information generally used to refer to hardware and software in an era where computers were only able to store and process a maximum of 8 bits per data block. This limit [..]

(computing,of a word size, or an integer) Represented using 8 bits (1 byte) * '''2007''', Nick Collins, Julio d'Escriván, ''The Cambridge companion to electronic music'' (page 189) *: I started cr [..]