Why only 8 bits?

8 bits was an adequate number of bits to represent a printing character, in 1962, so ANSI chose that and IBM chose that too, with a different encoding, so it caught on.

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2024-01-20 07:10:04

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Why is the nes called 8-bit?
It's to do with the technology NES ran on. The central processor was 8-bit, meaning each 'word' or chunk of instructions it could process was 8 bits long. In binary, this means a number up to 255.
2024-02-18 12:12:14

Is digital art 8-bit or 16?
Photographers will normally use 16 bit color since they are more likely to be working with RAW images and painters will use 8 bit color allowing for efficient memory and resource usage.
2024-02-17 05:36:19

Was pokemon red 8-bit?
Pokemon Red (and Blue) was an 8-bit game, but the imagination of a child, even a dull child like me, can do a lot with 8 bits.
2024-02-11 08:47:44

What is 8 bits 11111111 called?
A Byte is a sequence of 8 bits and has 256 possible values from 00000000 through 11111111. A kilobyte (kB) is 1,024 bytes or 2^10 bytes. A Megabyte (MB) is 1,048, 576 bytes or 2^20 bytes. A Gigabyte (GB) is 1,073,741,824 bytes or 2^30 bytes.
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