Alessio Palma wrote:
>
> > > 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
>
First there was a byte, in the meaning of "a group of bit's forming
one information unit, eg a character". Later on "word" and "double
word" came into use, I'm not sure about the nibble. I assume that
if you have a 6-bit-is-a-byte computer a word would be 12 bits.
> 1 bit is the unit of information and not byte.
>
sorry, confusing language, I should have said:
"byte" is just a name for a group of information units.
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