Byte vs Quadlet - What's the difference?
byte | quadlet |
(computing) A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
(computing) A unit of computing storage equal to eight bits
In computing terms the difference between byte and quadlet
is that byte is a unit of computing storage equal to eight bits while quadlet is a word consisting of four bytes.byte
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(en noun) (wikipedia byte)- The word “hello” fits into five bytes of ASCII code.