Octets calculation?
Grant Edwards
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Thu Jun 12 10:31:58 EDT 2003
In article <mailman.1055369063.13758.python-list at python.org>, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >> In the real world, nobody ever uses it to mean anything other than 8
> >> bits.
>
> Erik> That's simply not true. Take embedded systems, for examples,
> Erik> where it's not at all uncommon for a byte to be 16 or 32 bits.
>
> It's not uncommon for a machine word to be 16 or 32 bits, but it's rare
> these days for a byte to be anything other than 8 bits.
It's not rare in the DSP world. TI's line of FP DSPs all had
32-bit bytes. Where "byte" is used in the sense of the "C"
standard as the smallest unite of addressable memory. There
are quite a few integer DSPs with 16 and 24 bit "bytes".
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