Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Tue, 06 May 2008 08:51:59 -0700
Bob Estes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bit? Bytes?
Is a bit a small bit of a byte or is a byte just a small bite from a
bit??? Or maybe a bit is past tense of a byte??? Technology! Grrrrr
<grimace>
Basicly, a Byte is eight Bits.
And a Nybble is 4 bits. And, at least among chip makers' assemblers, a
word is 16 bits, a longword is 32-bits and a quadword is 64-bits.
But, in asynchronous serial data communications (eg. modem) it takes
10.5 bits to send a byte :-)
Not quite. It's only 10. There's 8 data bits, one start and one stop
bit. Perhaps you're thinking of the old 5 level code, which could have
1, 1.42 or 1.5 stop bits. Also, ASCII at 110 b/s has 2 stop bits, for a
total of 11 bits/char sent.
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