22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
8:04 a.m.
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf(a)siconic.com> wrote:
I always thought that the technical definition of a
"byte" is "8-bits".
That's the current definition among beige-box kids, I thought the original
definition was the smallest *addressable* unit of memory, wasn't it?
That's the reason why RFCs use the term "octet" for 8 bits, not
"byte".
MS