G'day Alexander,



25 May 96 15:20, Alexander Watson Law wrote to Rod Gasson:



 RG>> Next you'll be telling me that bit and byte are

 RG>> interchangable, or that PAL and NTSC are interchangable.



 AWL> OK, is a bit a 'b' and a byte a 'B' or is it the other way round?



TTBOMK these *are* interchangable.



 AWL> ie is kb kilobits or kilobytes?



Is *what* kilobits or kilobytes ?



The *general* answer would be kilobytes, 'cos bits are generally only

useful from a programming POV, and they are rarely ever counted.



When was the last time you heard of someone using a 288k BIT per sec

modem ?  (This would be the same as having a 28.8k cps (bps) modem

using 1 start BIT and 1 stop BIT, {at}8 bits per byte/character)



Cheers,

Rod



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