On 02/26/11 9:46 PM, Always Learning wrote: > Octets > > Thanks for pointing-out my misunderstanding. > > I'll remember 2 octets are really 2 characters (IBM's bytes) = 2 digits, > 4 octal numbers or 4 hexadecimal numbers. > 4 octal (base 8) digits only represents 12 bits. byte oriented computers really don't fit into octal at all well