Re: questions about bits and bytes
At 09:50 AM 4/11/96 -0400, Richard Martin wrote:
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On Apr 10, 6:57pm, jim bell wrote:
At 06:29 PM 4/10/96 -0700, Simon Spero wrote:
No, bytes are no always 8 bits - some machines use(d) 9-bit bytes. I notice you gave no examples. Why is that? Perhaps he thought that most people who were interested could go look it up themselves.
- From a really quick web search, we find that the SGI Impact jams 9-bit bytes [that's what it says] across the Rambus internally. I'm not sure if the memory itself is 9-bit.
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.
On Apr 12 at 8:07 jim bell wrote:
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.
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.. -- ____________________________________________________________________________ Doug Hughes Engineering Network Services System/Net Admin Auburn University doug@eng.auburn.edu Pro is to Con as progress is to congress
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