Octet - Revision history

Jnc: More NCP fixups, minor clarifications while I'm here

2022-06-29T13:10:52Z

More NCP fixups, minor clarifications while I'm here

Jnc: dab link

2022-06-04T21:31:11Z

dab link

Jnc: Fairly complete

2022-04-28T12:56:32Z

Fairly complete

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An '''octet''' is an 8-[[bit]] unit of data. Although the term [[byte]] is now basically a synonym, a separate term was needed in the early days of work on the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]], because in the earlier [[Network Control Program|NCP]] protocol suite of the [[ARPANET]], 'bytes' of variable length were supported. (That was as a result of the prevalence of machines such as [[PDP-10]], whose [[instruction set architecture|ISA]] directly supported variable-length bytes.)

[[Category: Basics]]

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−	An '''octet''' is an 8-[[bit]] unit of data. Although the term [[byte]] is now basically a synonym, a separate term was needed in the early days of work on the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]], because in the earlier [[Network Control ~~Program (ARPANET)~~\|NCP]] protocol suite of the [[ARPANET]], 'bytes' of variable length were supported. (That was as a result of the prevalence of machines such as [[PDP-10]], whose [[instruction set architecture\|ISA]] directly supported variable-length bytes.)	+	An '''octet''' is an 8-[[bit]] unit of data. Although the term [[byte]] is now basically a synonym, a separate term was needed in the early days of work on the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]], because in the earlier [[Network Control Protocol\|NCP]] protocol suite of the [[ARPANET]], 'bytes' of variable length were supported. (That was as a result of the prevalence of machines such as [[PDP-10]], a 36-bit [[word]] machine whose [[instruction set architecture\|ISA]] directly supported variable-length bytes.)

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−	An '''octet''' is an 8-[[bit]] unit of data. Although the term [[byte]] is now basically a synonym, a separate term was needed in the early days of work on the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]], because in the earlier [[Network Control Program\|NCP]] protocol suite of the [[ARPANET]], 'bytes' of variable length were supported. (That was as a result of the prevalence of machines such as [[PDP-10]], whose [[instruction set architecture\|ISA]] directly supported variable-length bytes.)	+	An '''octet''' is an 8-[[bit]] unit of data. Although the term [[byte]] is now basically a synonym, a separate term was needed in the early days of work on the [[TCP/IP]] [[protocol suite]], because in the earlier [[Network Control Program (ARPANET)\|NCP]] protocol suite of the [[ARPANET]], 'bytes' of variable length were supported. (That was as a result of the prevalence of machines such as [[PDP-10]], whose [[instruction set architecture\|ISA]] directly supported variable-length bytes.)

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