On 15/6/2013 5:44 μμ, Grant Edwards wrote:
There is some ambiguity in the term "byte". It used to mean the smallest addressable unit of memory (which varied in the past -- at one point, both 20 and 60 bit "bytes" were common). These days the smallest addressable unit of memory is almost always 8 bits on desktop and embedded processors (but often not on DSPs). That's why when IEEE stadards want to refer to an 8-bit chunk of data they use the term "octet".
What the difference between a byte and a byte's value? -- What is now proved was at first only imagined! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
