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Discussion Forum : Digital Computer Electronics - Section 2 (Q.No. 17)
17.
A byte is consist of _____ bits
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Anubhav said:
4 years ago
A byte is not a standard unit of measurement. It depends on who is making the machine. I have seen machines with 6-bit bytes (IBM) and 7-bit bytes (VT52) to variable size bytes like PDP-10 where a byte can be anywhere from 1-bit to 36-bit.
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