1996-04-11 - Re: questions about bits and bytes
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From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Message Hash: 6514e820549d8f628d68ba0971c14520f40d79c3fb1b598222e577da5f7a3d79
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Reply To: <m0u736N-0008yBC@pacifier.com>
UTC Datetime: 1996-04-11 09:30:44 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:30:44 +0800
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From: Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:30:44 +0800
To: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Subject: Re: questions about bits and bytes
In-Reply-To: <m0u736N-0008yBC@pacifier.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960410182824.5230D-100000@chivalry>
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No, bytes are no always 8 bits - some machines use(d) 9-bit bytes. That's
why we have the word octet.
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- 1996-04-13 (Sun, 14 Apr 1996 02:52:47 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 09:57:04 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - Rich Graves <llurch@networking.stanford.edu>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 17:30:44 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - Simon Spero <ses@tipper.oit.unc.edu>
- 1996-04-11 (Fri, 12 Apr 1996 06:22:00 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - “Perry E. Metzger” <perry@piermont.com>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:18:37 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - dlv@bwalk.dm.com (Dr. Dimitri Vulis)
- 1996-04-12 (Fri, 12 Apr 1996 18:22:35 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - Scott Brickner <sjb@universe.digex.net>
- 1996-04-11 (Thu, 11 Apr 1996 21:28:27 +0800) - Re: questions about bits and bytes - “Peter D. Junger” <junger@pdj2-ra.F-REMOTE.CWRU.Edu>