Re: questions about bits and bytes

[Doug Hughes <Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU>]

On Apr 12 at 8:07
jim bell wrote:
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>Are you sure they're not referring to 8 bits of data and a parity bit?  In 
>any case, please give the address to the list so that it can be checked out.
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Come on, give it up already and admit you were wrong. At least 8 different
people have cited examples of machines that supported non 8bit bytes. Your
pride is getting the best of you.

If you mean 8 bits, you should really say Octets as has always been the
form of Internet RFC's where the distinction is important.

It may be standard today, but it was not always so..

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