From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,811674947553ef14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-25 15:37:34 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!cyclone.swbell.net!easynews!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!stl-feed.news.verio.net!newsreader.wustl.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!not-for-mail From: David Starner Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free" Date: 25 Nov 2001 22:43:55 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <9trs7b$8q61@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <5LHYDjy2Mcfg@eisner.encompasserve.org> <3BFC5861.D3E2B270@acm.org> <3bfcc8a9$0$15836$626a54ce@news.free.fr> <3BFEEB0B.E1C0E709@brighton.ac.uk> <9toatb$4bn$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> <9tou8e$q0a$1@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> Reply-To: starner@okstate.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5301.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.3 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16959 Date: 2001-11-25T22:43:55+00:00 List-Id: On 24 Nov 2001 20:00:14 GMT, Adrian Knoth 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. -- David Starner - starner@okstate.edu Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I saw a daemon stare into my face, and an angel touch my breast; each one softly calls my name . . . the daemon scares me less." - "Disciple", Stuart Davis