Crumb

Modern equivalent

2 bits

A minor digital storage unit consisting of two bits, representing a quarter of an 8-bit byte.

Also occasionally called a quad or slice, the crumb is a playful computing unit falling right between a single bit and a full four-bit nibble in specialised low-level programming discussions.

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