13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
4:42 a.m.
At 02:18 AM 3/13/05 +0000, you wrote:
In my networking courses at university
Where was that?
we were always taught that 8
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:26:45 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin
<cisin at xenosoft.com>
wrote:
> > 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. bits was called an octet,
I've heard that too but it was a LOOONG time ago. I can't even remembe
where it or when it was.
because the size of a byte varies between
machines.
WORD sizes varies but a byte is now considered to be 8 bits.
Joe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte would seem to agree.
Ed.