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Why 8?
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 9:40 pm
by Not Available
Okay, you all know that a byte is made up of 8 bits, and how everything goes by 8? Well, why is that? Say if you made your own OS and software, could you make it to go by powers of 10 instead of 8? Or is it the hardware that makes it like that?
Re:Why 8?
Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 11:42 pm
by Andrew_Baker
Of course, you could... you could even make non-binary computers. A byte is 8-bits... I don't know, but you'll notice that there ARE other bit-lengths that are prominent like 16, 32, 64, 128. (Notice the doubling, due to binary?)