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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Sunday, October 19, 2003 4:14:34 pm | by JohnMcPherson | |
| Older page: | version 2 | Last edited on Sunday, October 19, 2003 3:59:15 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
8 bits.
-''C'mon guys
, there
's more to say about what
a [Byte
] is. AddToMe --AristotlePagaltzis''
+What an [Intel] [x86] assumption! On some machines
, a Byte was 6, 7, 9 or some other number of bits!
+
+Technically, a byte is a grouping of bits that a machine deals with. Traditionally this was the number of bits required to represent a single character in the machine
's native character set. Other units for measuring groupings of bits include nybbles (rare) and words (common).
+
+On
a typical modern
[PC
], a byte
is 8 bits, and a word is 4 bytes
.
