英语词汇megabyte的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	megabyte
词源	megabyte n. "a million bytes," 1972, from mega- + byte. The Sussex team has run the Forrester/Meadows models more than 1000 times on the UK's most powerful computer (the giant two-megabyte IBM 370/165 at Harwell). ["New Scientist," May 4, 1972] Entries linking to megabyte mega- before vowels meg-, word-forming element often meaning "large, great," but in physics a precise measurement to denote the unit taken a million times (megaton, megawatt, etc.), from Greek megas "great, large, vast, big, high, tall; mighty, important" (fem. megale), from PIE root *meg- "great." Mega began to be used alone as an adjective by 1982. High-speed computer stores 2.5 megabits [headline in "Electronics" magazine, Oct. 1, 1957] byte n. "unit of digital information in a computer," typically consisting of eight bits, 1956, American English; see bit (n.2). Reputedly coined by German-born American computer scientist Werner Buchholz (1922-2019) at IBM. updated on December 15, 2018
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