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[Grant Edwards]

On 2016-08-19, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016, at 16:51, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 6:03:53 AM UTC+12, Terry Reedy wrote:
>> >
>> > An 'octet' is a byte of 8 bits.
>> 
>> Is there any other size of byte?
>
> Not very often anymore. Used to be some systems had 9-bit bytes, and of
> course a lot of communication protocols only supported 7-bit data bytes.
> "Byte" is a technical term in the C and C++ standards meaning the
> smallest addressable unit even if that is a larger word.

Last time I looked a lot of DSP chips still have "byte" sizes larger
than 8 bits.  IIRC, 16, 24, and 32 bits are common byte sizes.

Not that Python runs on any of them...

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