• The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single...
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    Byte (stylized as BYTE) was a microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage...
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    In computing, endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising...
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  • UTF-8 (redirect from Continuation byte)
    four one-byte (8-bit) code units. Code points with lower numerical values, which tend to occur more frequently, are encoded using fewer bytes. It was designed...
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  • The byte-order mark (BOM) is a particular usage of the special Unicode character code, U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE, whose appearance as a magic number...
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  • Megabyte (redirect from Mega byte)
    The megabyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. Its recommended unit symbol is MB. The unit prefix mega is a multiplier of 1000000...
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  • Look up Byte, Bytes, byte, or bytes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that...
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    Gigabyte (redirect from GigaByte)
    unit byte for digital information. The prefix giga means 109 in the International System of Units (SI). Therefore, one gigabyte is one billion bytes. The...
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  • Kilobyte (redirect from Kilo byte)
    The kilobyte is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information. The International System of Units (SI) defines the prefix kilo as a multiplication...
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  • Byte addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast...
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  • be aligned if the data is stored in four consecutive bytes and the first byte lies on a 4-byte boundary. Data alignment is the aligning of elements according...
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    ByteDance Ltd. is a Chinese internet technology company headquartered in Haidian, Beijing and incorporated in the Cayman Islands. Founded by Zhang Yiming...
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  • Byte-oriented framing protocol is "a communications protocol in which full bytes are used as control codes. Also known as character-oriented protocol."...
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    code (1 byte), high byte of the register address to read (1 byte), low byte of the register address to read (1 byte) and data (2 bytes = high byte and low...
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    Byte serving (other names: Range Requests; Byte Range Serving; Page on demand) is the process introduced in HTTP protocol 1.1 of sending only a portion...
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  • Byte [Computer Superstores Ltd] was a retail venture of Specialist Computer Holdings Ltd in the United Kingdom which from 1993 sold primarily computer...
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  • Bytecode (redirect from Byte code)
    program objects. The name bytecode stems from instruction sets that have one-byte opcodes followed by optional parameters. Intermediate representations such...
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    Nibble (redirect from Half-byte)
    or nybl to match the spelling of byte) is a four-bit aggregation, or half an octet. It is also known as half-byte or tetrade. In a networking or telecommunications...
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  • double-byte character set (DBCS) is a character encoding in which either all characters (including control characters) are encoded in two bytes, or merely...
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  • one byte, but historically the size of the byte is not strictly defined. Frequently, half, full, double and quadruple words consist of a number of bytes which...
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  • Byte pair encoding (also known as digram coding) is an algorithm, first described in 1994 by Philip Gage for encoding strings of text into tabular form...
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  • Ubisoft Blue Byte GmbH (Blue Byte until 2017) is a German video game holding company owned by Ubisoft. It was founded in October 1988 by Thomas Hertzler...
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  • Bitstream (redirect from Byte stream)
    sequence, is a sequence of bits. A bytestream is a sequence of bytes. Typically, each byte is an 8-bit quantity, and so the term octet stream is sometimes...
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    Huddles (app) (redirect from Byte Inc.)
    Huddles (originally Clash, Byte (via Acquisition), and later Huddles) was an American short-form video hosting service and creator monetization platform...
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    The Byte is a small one-design sailing dinghy sailed by one person. It was designed by Canadian Ian Bruce, who also commissioned and marketed the Laser...
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  • 55 AA as its last two bytes. Executables for the Game Boy and Game Boy Advance handheld video game systems have a 48-byte or 156-byte magic number, respectively...
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    packed into bytes which are then packed into blocks of up to 255 bytes. A block of image data begins with a byte that declares the number of bytes to follow...
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  • Byte Bandit is a boot sector computer virus created for the Amiga personal computer. It first appeared in January 1988. In contrast to the feared Amiga...
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  • a TCP/IP port binding DSTPORT 2-byte port number (in network byte order) DESTIP IPv4 Address, 4 bytes (in network byte order) ID the user ID string, variable...
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  • encodings are multibyte encodings (aka MBCS – multi-byte character set), which use varying numbers of bytes (octets) to encode different characters. (Some...
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