Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>> Örn Hansen wrote:
>>>   I think a byte is always 2^8, no matter what.   
>> Frayed knot!  There were systems that used 6 bit bytes and probably
>> other sizes too.
>
> Doubly frayed knot...
>
>
> Those aren't bytes, those are words.
>
> Wordsize may vary, but bytes are 8 bits.
> and nybbles are 4 bits.
>
>
>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte

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