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Re: Upcoming Events (fwd)
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Adam Turoff wrote:
>
> ----- Forwarded message -----
> 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".
I've used 60-bit machines with 10, 6-bit "bytes" per word!
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