12 Mar
2005
12 Mar
'05
6:18 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:26:45 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
In my networking courses at university we were always taught that 8
bits was called an octet, because the size of a byte varies between
machines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte would seem to agree.
Ed.
Except that
the size of a byte is undefined on a diskette, since it is not
directly linked to a processor architecture.
Byte is 8 bits.