-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:57:31 -0400
Hahahaha!!!
For those trying to follow along, a nibble is actually a real unit of 'bit'
terminology. Roger (or someone whom he deeply respects) made up the hickey
part.
There's no arguement, Roger. I'm discussing the bits & bytes themselves. 9
bits are needed to actually use them for anything meaningful as you so
rightly described. To make it even more confusing, many embedded systems
use streams that are longer than 8 bits in order to communicate various
commands and such to other components. The fun never ends! lol
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger" <rcleavitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 10:23 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless
> Actually the argument presses on. It takes 9 bits per byte since a stop
> bit
> is required between bytes.
> So, an eight bit stream is actually a nine bit stream, otherwise you would
> get an undecipherable mess that nobody could understand.
> Imagine transmitting a distress signal without a stop bit.........
> is it SOS,OSS,SSO, SSO???
> To get a constant signal, decipherable by a radio operator, the stream
> must
> be SOS/SOS/SOS........... so the break is essential!
> To get my late wife's young cousin to take up computing rather than
> roofing
> I told him I'd take a class with him in Basic out at the Community College
> and I'd drive.
> We got to the binary code and I explained a bit, then that four bits
> constructs a nibble, two nibbles makes a byte........... and two bytes
> makes
> a hickey!
> I nearly got expelled but nobody in the class ever forgot it.
> YMMV
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