From: David Starner <dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu>
Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free"
Date: 25 Nov 2001 22:43:55 GMT
Date: 2001-11-25T22:43:55+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9trs7b$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9tou8e$q0a$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de
On 24 Nov 2001 20:00:14 GMT, Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> wrote:
> Yeah, I knew that. First I was a little bit confused like "Who they
> believe they are? Everyone calls it byte?" but then I saw the pro
> in teaching: you probably couldn't forget that eight bits are one "octet"
But eight bits aren't nessecarily one byte. A byte has ranged from 6-9
bits, with 1-6 bits on the 1956 IBM Stretch and 1-36 bits on the PDP-10.
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2001-11-21 22:28 OT: Meaning of the word "free" Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-21 23:57 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-22 12:06 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-23 5:51 ` AG
2001-11-23 11:49 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-23 12:03 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-25 1:15 ` Mark Lundquist
2001-11-26 15:31 ` Marin David Condic
2001-11-26 18:10 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-22 1:44 ` OT: " Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-22 9:43 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-24 0:34 ` John English
2001-11-24 10:42 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 14:30 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-24 19:00 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 20:00 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-25 10:41 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-25 12:07 ` Florian Weimer
2001-11-26 18:13 ` Wes Groleau
2001-11-25 13:45 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-25 22:43 ` David Starner [this message]
2001-11-26 9:31 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2001-11-26 10:51 ` John English
2001-11-26 18:56 ` OT: Meaning of the word Ted Dennison
2001-11-26 20:26 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-27 11:37 ` John English
2001-11-28 0:45 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-22 10:55 ` OT: Meaning of the word "free" Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 10:53 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 18:31 ` Georg Bauhaus
2001-11-23 12:07 ` Preben Randhol
2001-11-22 17:46 ` Julio Cano
2001-11-22 20:38 ` Adrian Knoth
2001-11-23 20:24 ` Julio Cano
2001-11-24 3:56 ` Jeffrey Carter
2001-11-24 0:36 ` John English
2001-11-22 21:29 ` Pascal Obry
2001-11-24 0:30 ` John English
2001-11-24 11:54 ` Larry Kilgallen
2001-11-24 17:57 ` Robert Dewar
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2001-11-26 2:19 tmoran
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