Subject: Re: "dribbling bit"
To: seth@cql.com, Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Chris Gray <chris@kiffer.eunet.be>
List: tech-net
Date: 01/21/2003 00:22:09 
On Monday 20 January 2003 22:27, seth@cql.com wrote:

> "Non-integer number of bytes" doesn't make sense.  There is no such thing
> as a fraction of a byte.  

Then what is a bit, if not 1/8 of a byte?