Definition of byte

rjelliffe at allette.com.au rjelliffe at allette.com.au
Wed Jun 16 16:22:45 CEST 2010


> Dear all,
>
> Yesterday WG 4 reached agreement on the following definition of byte, to
> be included in all Parts of 29500:
>
> "a sequence of 8 bits treated as a unit"

So if you are going to define a byte as an octet, there should be nothing
stopping you from referencing the ISO term octet as well.

Cheers
Rick


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