Jos Gielen ha scritto:

> Or Botton wrote:
> > If I want to convert a number in MegaBits to MegaBytes, do I need to
> > divide the Bits by 8?
> >
> > For example, 4MegaBits equal 0.5MegaBytes?
> >
> >                                        Or Botton
> for all practical purposes: yes. Theoratically: no
> "byte" is just a name for a unit of information. Today we just happen to
> use only 8 bit bytes but bytes can have other lenghts as well.

Really?!? What are Word and DWord ?

I know that:
4 bits are called NIBBLE
8 bits are called BYTE
16 "    "       "     WORD
32 "    "       "     DOUBLE WORD

1 bit is the unit of information and not byte.

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