On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:21:43 -0400, Larry Martell wrote: > 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'?"
LOL! Did you explain to him that a full word could also be 'nibble nibble nibble nibble' or 'bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit'? -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 The cow died so I don't need your bull! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
