Difference between revisions of "Octet"
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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 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 ISA directly supported variable-length bytes.)
