Re: Bytes

Subject: Re: Bytes
From: Glenda Jeffrey <jeffrey -at- LEMOND -dot- HKS -dot- COM>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 1995 14:44:45 -0400

On Jun 8, 11:31am, Pat Madea wrote:

> whoa... there's my 2-bits, 4-bits, 6-bits, a byte!


Funny - I was reading comp.text.sgml recently, and there
was this raging debate over whether 8 bits really make a byte.
Apparently, different machines have different byte sizes,
so there's no guarantee.

Just when you thought you'd found something concrete in life ;-)

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