@0x1eef Don't worry, I understand your line of thought here. I *assume* it comes from "modern" languages where everything is some "complex object" with potentially costly "construction" attached.

If you read the #C language standard, everything *is* an "object" (sure, what else), but we're mostly talking about simple values anyways. A 'char' is exactly a #byte, meaning a value of *at least* 8 bits (and, on any modern platform, it's *exactly* 8 bits, these strange architectures with e.g. 9bit bytes are dead by now).

Passing a 'char' on the stack *might* be subject to alignment requirements, so it's perfectly possible it needs e.g. 32 bits there. But then, the size of a #pointer depends on the address space of your target machine, this will typically be 64 bits nowadays. 😎

2 bytes for R$ 24,90, that's US$ 2,56 per #byte. Times 1,024^2, that's US$ 2,684,354.56 per #megabyte. Are we back in the 60's?? 😂

Saw an Atari ad in November 1986 issue of Byte magazine. I’ve seen these “10 commandments” ads in others as well, although I don’t think they ever made 10 of them.
#Atari #AtariST #RetroComputing #Byte

Diamo un senso alle grandezze di archiviazione dei dati...

#Byte di dati: un chicco di riso
#Kilobyte: una tazza di riso
#Megabyte: 8 sacchi di riso
#Gigabyte: 3 camion container
#Terabyte: 2 navi container
#Petabyte: copre Manhattan
#Exabyte: copre il Regno Unito (3 volte)
#Zettabyte: riempie l'Oceano Pacifico

Diamo un senso alle grandezze di archiviazione dei dati...

#Byte di dati: un chicco di riso
#Kilobyte: una tazza di riso
#Megabyte: 8 sacchi di riso
#Gigabyte: 3 camion container
#Terabyte: 2 navi container
#Petabyte: copre Manhattan
#Exabyte: copre il Regno Unito (3 volte)
#Zettabyte: riempie l'Oceano Pacifico

Another "find" in the ongoing cellar cleanout effort. This one also (in addition to the Kate Bush ones) seems somewhat topical.

#ai #byte #tinney

The connection from one MCU to the other is a single #signal #wire, plus shared #power and #ground. It's a point-to-point link; there's no addressing involved. It's simplex, so no collision detection or anything complicated.

In fact, it's dirt-simple, and extremely low-bandwidth. The secondary MCU transmits a single #byte of data to the primary MCU approximately every 120ms. So ~70 bits per second, max.

The signal line has a #pullup #resistor at the primary end.

[...]

Wir haben die Daten aus Bayern bei uns direkt eingebunden. Also mehr #OpenData für alle. https://www.govdata.de/suchen/-/searchresult/f/sourceportal:af066138-48e4-429e-b08e-c5859eebc6e8,/s/relevance_desc

Danke #Byte 🤝 für die Anbindung

#bayern #govdata #itplr

Byte Magazine - 23 Years of Computer History
(September 1975 - July 1998)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lU537upx3c

#byte #bytemagazine #computers #magazine #history
#oldcomputers #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

@th_willenbrink @olliausstuhr @kuketzblog

Traffic meinte ich mehr Richtung #Umweltschutz und #Energiewende

Jedes übertragene #byte erzeugt #CO2 und Energiekosten

Golem halte ich eher für die Bild Zeitung

Mein Zeitgewinn besteht im übrigen nicht nur aus dem schnellen aussortieren

Viele Feeds wie z.b der #ccc schreiben nicht täglich

In der RSS Übersicht sehe ich es aber sofort

So muss ich nicht etliche Seiten besuchen um nur festzustellen ob die überhaupt was geschrieben haben > Traffic!

Das ist der 1. Teil einer Sammlung von Anekdoten, Mythen und Legenden aus dem IT-Universum. Kuriose Geschichten, Irrtümer und Hintergründe rund um die Computer, von den frühen Anfängen, bis hin zu aktuellen Themen. Willkommen in der Nerd-Enzyklopädie!

NE #1: Warum ist 1 Byte 8 Bit groß?

#anekdoten #mythen #it #nerd #computer #byte #bit

https://steadyhq.com/de/die-nerd-enzyklopaedie/posts/5278fa24-0816-4ed7-9d36-d7f82b20bf33

Artificial intelligence has been on the news for a long time. The following image is the cover page of the April 1985 issue of BYTE. This fantastic printed magazine was trendy among geeks in the '80 and '90 (obviously, I was a subscriber). This issue included well-written Artificial Intelligence articles explaining how AI works. At the time, rule-based systems were the primary, if not the only, way to implement AI.

#BYTE #artificialintelligence #AI #knowledgebase

I am absolutely in love with this hex editor, ImHex 😍. I spent a few hours today teaching it how to decode QuickTime MOV atoms, and now I can poke around inside a movie file and see how it works at a byte by byte level. https://imhex.werwolv.net
Back in the day, we used AtomicDumpster for this, but that seems to be long gone.
#byte #ReverseEngineering #hexadecimal #code

My, how times have changed in computing.

Byte Magazine ad in the October 1996 issue: "You never give your HP printer a second thought. You just know it's going to work. Now that same HP performance can be found in a line of PCs designed specifically for the demands of small business. The HP Vectra 500 PCs."

I find computers to be vastly more reliable than printers now. Especially HP printers with their damn DRM. It's always a crapshoot if you can actually get a printout.

#Byte #HP #Printer

I am re-reading each Byte magazine issue before recycling it.

January 1997 cover: “Can Java Replace Windows?”

I guess not. 🫤

#Byte #Java #Windows

@mdhughes @darkhunter We have a #Commodore PET, we have a #TRS80, can we complete the #BYTE Magazine “1977 Trinity” with an #Apple II?
#retrocomputing

💾 Byte magazine was an early microcomputer magazine, influential in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s because of its wide-ranging editorial coverage.
Retro website by David Gleason
#ByteMagazine #Byte #vintage #Archive

https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm

😍:

“Byte Magazine 1975-1995”, World Radio History (https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34397245

#Byte #ByteMagazine #Magazine #Archive #ComputerHistory #Scans #PDF

LIke... what was the ROI on this one-ninth-of-a-page ad, on page 622 of 640 of a 1984 #Byte magazine?

#GoldenWestSystems #Porterville
#BlandAds

App Store '84.

#IBM #Byte