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In theory bytes can be a different size, and 8 bits is an octet. But any modern computer, at least those most people will ever come into contact with or hear of
by LinAGKar 4y ago
In theory bytes can be a different size, and 8 bits is an octet. But any modern computer, at least those most people will ever come into contact with or hear of, have 8-bit bytes. So while 8 bits = 1 byte should be common knowledge, knowing about other byte sizes is esoteric knowledge.
What systems are there with such large bytes?
- defrost 4y agoThe Texas Instrument TMS DSP family from 1980 through until today all have large bytes and lack octet addressing (and bit masking and such). They are fiends for pipelined throughput and have low level ASM statements that modular index through vector calculations per clock cycle (increment pointers, multiply and add arguments, store results, etc) but are built for the float | double numerical domain grunt work with no ground given for bithack twiddling. There are other examples but that should suffice.