--- Vaibhav Kulkarni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 1 Byte = 8 bits. (generally ?) > > ALWAYS
WRONG! Look it up ;-) A 'byte' is any fixed-length stream of bits (or something like that)... An 'octet' is an 8-bit 'byte'. You could have 1-bit bytes or 9-bit bytes or any length you prefer... Its just that the 'industry' and 'academia' has 'standardised' on 8-bit bytes... Cheers, Vishal __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
