How many bits are in a byte? What women think...

[ed21x]

isn't there suppose to be 10, with the last 2 for verification purposes?

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: notfred
A byte is the length of one character, which is not necesarily 8-bits.

That makes sense. So, a byte in the Mac world would be 7-bits?

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: notfred
A byte is the length of one character, which is not necesarily 8-bits.

aka "word" size which is, in fact, 8 bits on x86 CPUs, but this is simply the default size which is assigned to a byte by said architecture, not the universal size of a byte.

a word is 4 bytes...

 

[Flyermax2k3]

Originally posted by: gopunk

Originally posted by: Flyermax2k3

Originally posted by: notfred
A byte is the length of one character, which is not necesarily 8-bits.

aka "word" size which is, in fact, 8 bits on x86 CPUs, but this is simply the default size which is assigned to a byte by said architecture, not the universal size of a byte.

a word is 4 bytes...

doh! LOL, I knew that... 32 bits/4 bytes = native word size of 32-bit CPUs.