Byte is a term used in the systems area to define the unit of digital information equivalent to an ordered set of bits (generally eight). This term comes from the English word "bite" which means "bite", referring to the least amount of data that a computer could store or "bite" at the same time. It does not have a special symbology, in some countries such as France it is interpreted with the letter "o", while in Anglo-Saxons it is usual to identify them with the "B" to differentiate it from bit, whose symbol is the lowercase b.
The word byte was first raised by Werner Buchholz more than fifty years ago, amid the advancements of the IBM 7030 Stretch computers. Each byte means a single character of text on a computer, which can be letters, numbers, symbols, punctuation marks, etc; encoding various information on the same computer, depending on the quantity. For example: 1B corresponds to a letter, 10 B corresponds to one or two words, while 100 B corresponds to one or two sentences. The byte has different multiples, among them is the kilobyte (1000 bytes), megabyte (1,000,000 bytes), among others.
The function of the bytes is to indicate to the user the storage capacity that some devices have, such as a pendrive, a CD, a DVD or a RAM memory. It is common for a CD to be able to store 700 megabytes, while a DVD exceeds gigabytes. However, you can find devices of this class on the market, up to 4.8 and 10 gigabytes.
