What a surprising question! To me, knowing how computers work is just something I thought every programmer would just know as fundamental knowledge (note bytes

What a surprising question! To me, knowing how computers work is just something I thought every programmer would just know as fundamental knowledge (note bytes don't always have 8 bits, but it's the most common). I guess there is not an absolute need to know this if it doesn't affect business logic type programming or UIs, although I think I might think a person was not very well educated or curious if they didn't know that.