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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 26/03/2013 16:33, Scott Howard
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type="cite">On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 9:38 PM, Narelle <span
dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank">narellec@gmail.com</a>></span>
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<div class="im">Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.</div>
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<div>Umm.. no. Not "Always were".</div>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte</a>
because I'm too lazy to justify it myself. You won't need to
read past the first paragraph.</div>
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...which is why early RFCs always referred to an 'octet' as the
8-bit wide entity. Bytes were generally whatever the word size of
the architecture was 6, 8, 10, 12 bits occasionally. Until 16-bit
architectures came in, and 'word' was used for the 16-bit native
size, leaving 'byte' for the half-word size.<br>
Octets are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.<br>
But we digress, and its not yet Friday.<br>
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Paul</pre>
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