Accounting and octets - a silly one!

Michael Schwartzkopff ms at sys4.de
Thu Apr 3 11:21:16 CEST 2014


Am Donnerstag, 3. April 2014, 10:05:19 schrieb Arran Cudbard-Bell:
> On 3 Apr 2014, at 09:36, Chaigneau, Nicolas 
<nicolas.chaigneau at capgemini.com> wrote:
> > "octets" means "bytes".
> 
> Yes, in modern systems they are synonymous.

The term "byte" was patented by IBM. So all RFCs use "octets".

Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Michael Schwartzkopff

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