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If byte and octet become synonymous, what do we call the smallest addressable unit of memory?
by cygx 14y ago
If byte and octet become synonymous, what do we call the smallest addressable unit of memory?
- edanm 14y agoProbably, the places that actually care about the difference will continue to use "byte", even though no one else will understand. When I worked in embedded, whenever people were working on non-8-bit processors, they used the words "byte", "word", and "double word" in this way.