From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: ak@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, willy@debian.org,
thunder7@xs4all.nl, parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] documented Oops running big-endian reiserfs on parisc architecture
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 11:44:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200109031544.f83Fidbr002589@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> of "Mon, 03 Sep 2001 01:15:30 MST." <20010903.011530.62340995.davem@redhat.com>
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com> said:
> IP header length is measured in octets, so how is this possible?
> :-)
1 octet == 8 bits in RFC-speak. "Byte" is the name given to character
units. There were machines around with non-8-bit bytes. AFAIR, DEC PDP-10
had the options of 6, 7, or 8 bits/byte in 36 bit words. Purely historical
now, since (AFAIK) everybody has agreed with IBM (S/360?) that 1 byte == 8
bits. As Brian Reid (IIRC) used to say: "It is spelled 'o-c-t-e-t' and
pronounced 'byte'"
--
Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-03 23:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20010903002514.X5126@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <E15dghq-0000bZ-00@the-village.bc.nu.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2001-09-03 7:29 ` Andi Kleen
2001-09-03 8:15 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-03 8:41 ` Andi Kleen
2001-09-03 10:48 ` Hans Reiser
2001-09-03 14:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-09-03 15:44 ` Horst von Brand [this message]
2001-09-02 8:55 thunder7
2001-09-02 14:00 ` [parisc-linux] " Matthew Wilcox
2001-09-02 23:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-02 23:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-09-02 23:31 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-02 23:26 ` David S. Miller
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