22 Sep
2004
22 Sep
'04
11:04 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
22 Sep
22 Sep
2:07 p.m.
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 13:04, Michael Sokolov wrote:
We had to oppress the non-8-bit-byte zealots for a simply reason -- you
can't make nybbles out of odd bytes!
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". 
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