A few questiosn about encoding

[Nick the Gr33k]

On 15/6/2013 5:44 μμ, Grant Edwards wrote:

> There is some ambiguity in the term "byte".  It used to mean the
> smallest addressable unit of memory (which varied in the past -- at
> one point, both 20 and 60 bit "bytes" were common).  These days the
> smallest addressable unit of memory is almost always 8 bits on desktop
> and embedded processors (but often not on DSPs).  That's why when IEEE
> stadards want to refer to an 8-bit chunk of data they use the term
> "octet".

What the difference between a byte and a byte's value?


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