Octets calculation?

[Erik Max Francis]

"Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)" wrote:

> In my experience, this supposed ambiguity about the meaning
> of the word "byte" is something that only exists in the
> rarified imaginations of standards writers. In the real
> world, nobody ever uses it to mean anything other than
> 8 bits.

That's simply not true.  Take embedded systems, for examples, where it's
not at all uncommon for a byte to be 16 or 32 bits.

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