>> In the real world, nobody ever uses it to mean anything other than 8
>> bits.
Erik> That's simply not true. Take embedded systems, for examples,
Erik> where it's not at all uncommon for a byte to be 16 or 32 bits.
It's not uncommon for a machine word to be 16 or 32 bits, but it's rare
these days for a byte to be anything other than 8 bits.
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