Adam Turoff on Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:13:25 -0500


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Re: Upcoming Events (fwd)


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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:05:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Mark Rogaski <mrogaski668@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: wendigo@pobox.com
Subject: Re: Upcoming Events
To: phl@lists.pm.org

--- Walt Mankowski <waltman@netaxs.com> wrote:
>
> Bits and bytes are both "standard" (whatever that means).  It's like
> asking which is more standard, inches or miles?
> 

Actually, "byte" can refer to 7, 8, or 9 contiguous bits.  It is safer to
refer to "octets".

Mark

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[]                   | "Girls in occupied countries always
[] Mark Rogaski      | get into trouble with soldiers," she
[] wendigo@pobox.com | said, when I asked her what the Virgin
[]                   | birth was.  -- Florence King, CoaFSL
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