On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrenced...@gmail.com> 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?
Many, many years ago, probably c. 1982 my Dad came into my house and saw a Byte Magazine laying on the coffee table. He asked "What is a byte?" I replied "Half a word." He then asked "What is the other half of the word?" I said "That is also a byte." He thought for a moment, then said "So the full word is 'byte byte'?" -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
