| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: What's a megapulse? |
| Date: | Wed, 27 May 1998 11:09:17 +0100 |
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|Ubiratan P. Alberton writes:
|
|>With the recent computing discussion going around here, something has
|>come to my mind. How much is a megapulse worth in today's "data
|>measuring units (i.e bytes, megabytes, etc.). I'm using 8 megabytes
|>based on a somewhat quick calculation for a byte in a quartenary system
|>(64 bits, as oposed to 8 from todays binary computers).
|
|
|It is stated repeatedly throughout the sourcebooks that a megapulse is a
|measurement term that has no relation whatsoever to bits, bytes, nybbles,
|dynners, plytes, or dysserts (a nybble is 4 bits, a plyte is 2 bytes, a
|dynner is 4 bytes, and a dyssert is a checksum bit on the end of a byte).
First time I've heard of them.
I suppose it had to happen eventually though, what with Bytes and Nybbles
though....
I've always gone by the terms...
Byte
Word : 2 Bytes
Longword: 4 Bytes.
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