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deathanatos
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1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
The word "octet" is absolutely the kibibyte of "bits in a byte".
layer8
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It’s the French word for “byte”. In France your computer has Ko/Mo/Go.
kstrauser
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I can go along with that, mostly. When you say "octet", some old-timer with an IBM 650 can't go whining that kids these days can't even read his 7-bit emails.
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