2.8M 3.5" floppy (was: three and a quarter inch floppy?

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On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:26:45 -0800 (PST), Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
> > Except that the size of a byte is undefined on a diskette, since it is not
> > directly linked to a processor architecture.
> Byte is 8 bits.

In my networking courses at university we were always taught that 8
bits was called an octet, because the size of a byte varies between
machines. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte would seem to agree.

Ed.