Bit und Bytes

[Christian Kruse]

Hallo Axel,

Aber auch die Cee-Programmierer kennen das EdvByte als
Einheit für die Speichergröße mit 8 Bit.

http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/fs-1037/dir-006/_0765.htm
|byte (B): A sequence of adjacent bits (usually 8) considered
|as a unit. (188) Note: In pre-1970 literature, "byte"
|referred to a variable-length bit string. Since that time
|the usage has changed so that now it almost always refers to
|an 8-bit string. This usage predominates in computer and data
|transmission literature; when so used, the term is
|synonymous with "octet."

http://www.free-webhosts.com/definition/byte.php:
|Byte:
|
|A set of bits (normally 8, but sometimes more) that
|represent data, such as a single text character.

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci211721,00.html:
|In most computer systems, a byte is a unit of data that is
|eight binary digits long.

http://medic.bgu.ac.il/comp/course/defs/byte.html:
|/bi:t/ An amount of memory or data smaller than a word;
|usually eight bits; enough to represent one character; the
|smallest addressable unit of storage.

Soll ich weitermachen?
Ein Byte ist AFAIK die kleinste adressierbare Einheit auf
einer Architektur. Das sind heute *meistens* 8 Bit, aber
nicht zwingenderweise.

Gruesse,
 CK