-> 7 bits would only cover the standard ASCII character set..
-> ie... 00-7F (hex) or 000-127 (dec)...  This would be fine
-> if all one ever did was view or download text data...
-> You can forget binary files such as *.EXE, *.ZIP, etc..
-> They contain quite a bit of data from 80-FF (hex) or 128-255 (dec).
-> Of course you can also forget about all those graphical comm
-> programs used by AOL, Prodigy, Compuserve, and even those nasty
-> web browsers used with a PPP connection such as Internet Explorer
-> or Netscape... 8-)
I'll stick with 8 bit then.
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