13 Mar
2005
13 Mar
'05
5:04 a.m.
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:42:04 -0500, Joe R. <rigdonj at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
At 02:18 AM 3/13/05 +0000, you wrote:
In my networking courses at university
Where was that?
Britain. Maybe it's different over here...
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. we were always taught that 8
Well, the chap who taught that course was a venerable network coder,
and I think he'd been there for as long as the department itself had.
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
Ah, my mistake then. *scribbles in mental notes*
machines.
WORD sizes varies but a byte is now considered to be 8 bits.