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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Endianness (redirect from Network byte order)
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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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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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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Data structure alignment (redirect from Byte packing)
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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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 addressing in hardware architectures supports accessing individual bytes. Computers with byte addressing are sometimes called byte machines, in contrast...
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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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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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First Byte is a play-on-words of the phrase "love at first sight" and may refer to: Love at First Byte, 2000 book by Christine Harris Love @ First Byte: The...
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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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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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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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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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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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Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (COBS) is an algorithm for encoding data bytes that results in efficient, reliable, unambiguous packet framing regardless...
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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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A zero-byte file or zero-length file is a computer file containing no data; that is, it has a length or size of zero bytes. There are many ways that could...
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Magic number (programming) (redirect from Magic byte)
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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Null character (redirect from Null byte injection)
sequence. Null Byte Injection WASC Threat Classification Null Byte Attack section. Null Byte Injection WASC Threat Classification Null Byte Attack section...
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K-Byte or M-Byte was manufactured due to the bankruptcy of Byton. Front 3/4 View Rear 3/4 View Wikimedia Commons has media related to Byton K-Byte. Mercedes-Benz...
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recorders and players by adding a 4-byte timecode (TC) field to the standard 188-byte packets, resulting in a 192-byte packet. This is what is informally...
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