kilobyte
See also: Kilobyte
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Coined in the 1960s, from kilo- (“thousand”) + byte.
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kilobyte (plural kilobytes)
- (computing, especially networking) One thousand (103, or 1,000) bytes.
- 1969, Harold R. Dell, HIGH-DENSITY PERMANENT DATA STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM[1], US Patent 3638185:
- 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.
- (computing, informal, especially RAM) a kibibyte.
- 1969, Hisashi Horikoshi, MEMORY CONTROL SYSTEM[2], US Patent 3618041:
- 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.
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1024 bytes
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kilobyte m inan
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kilobyte m (invariable)
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Unadapted borrowing from English kilobyte.
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kilobyte m (plural kilobytes)
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- Multiples of the byte: kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terabyte, petabyte, exabyte, zettabyte, yottabyte