Infobox magazine title Byte image file Byte Front Cover December 1975.jpg image size 200px image caption ... BYTEmagazine was a microcomputer computer magazinemagazine , influential in the late 1970s ..., 1977 url http books.google.com books?id Rt5VRWY4aR8C&pg PA405 issn 0262 4079 Bytemagazine, the leading ... price of 10. How BYTE started In 1975 Wayne Green was the editor and publisher of 73 magazine ... computer hobby magazine to take over as editor of a new publication which would start in August ... BYTE ... after her divorce ten years earlier. Because she started Green Publishing and ByteMagazine with limited ... magazine article suggested that One day in November 1975 Wayne came to work and found that the Byte ... Green s publishing company to publish, inter alia, ByteMagazine. Both Folio and Wayne Green settled ... a romantic light opera with an episode or two reminiscent of the Keystone Cops, BYTEmagazine finally ... launch of a computer magazine called Kilobyte . Byte quickly trademarked KILOBYTE as a cartoon series in Bytemagazine as the first of a planned family of trademarks based upon the original Byte trademark ... Microcomputing magazine Kilobaud before the first issue was produced. Bytemagazine s policy ... for the time. It was the must read magazine of the popular computer magazines. Around 1993 Byte ... magazine, and online publication Byte s readership and advertising revenue were declining ... in May 1998. The magazine s editors and writers expected its new owner to revitalize Byte but CMP ... of Bytemagazine, Jerry Pournelle s column continued to be published in the Turkish editions ... name halfhill http www.halfhill.com bytefaq.html Tom s Unofficial BYTE FAQ The Death of BYTEMagazine ... byte authors 7130 ref See also MC die microcomputer zeitschrift magazine , a former German magazine similar to Byte. References Reflist Further reading Jay Ranade Ranade, Jay Nash, Alan 1993 ... BYTE Turkey Only active monthly printed BYTEmagazine, subscription supported. Accessed ... more details
About the information storage unit the homophone bite other uses The byte IPAc en icon b a t is a units ... consists of eight bit s. Historically, a byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character ... in many computer architecture s. The size of the byte has historically been hardware dependent and no definitive ... bits is a convenient power of two permitting the values 0 through 255 for one byte. With ISO ... associated at the time with the term byte. ref cite web url http www.tcpipguide.com free ... and Representation ref History The term byte was coined by Dr. Werner Buchholz in July 1956, during ... catb.org esr jargon html B byte.html title byte definition ref It is a respelling of bite to avoid ... Bit and byte prefixes The unit symbol for the byte is specified in IEC80000 13, IEEE 1541 and the Metric ... bel , a unit of logarithmic power ratios named after Alexander Graham Bell . The usage of B for byte ... , for signal strength and sound pressure level measurements, while a unit for one tenth of a byte ... specify bit e.g., Mbit for megabit for the symbol, a sufficient disambiguation from byte. Citation ... in IEC 80000 13 The symbol B for byte is not international and should not be confused with the symbol ... of SI prefix SI or metric prefixes used with the unit byte, especially concerning prefixes such as kilo k or K and mega M as shown in the chart Prefixes for bit and byte . Since computer memory ... , illustrated in the linear log graph at right of difference versus storage size. Common uses The byte ... C and C programming languages, for example, define byte as an addressable unit of data storage large ... of C and C reserve 8, 9, 16, 32, or 36 bits for the storage of a byte. ref http www.parashift.com ... code byte code data type is always defined as consisting of 8 bits and being a signed data type, holding values from 128 to 127. In data transmission systems a byte is defined as a contiguous sequence ... Category Computer memory Category Data unit Category Primitive types af Greep ar ast Byte az Bayt ... more details
wiktionary Byte Bytes byte bytes A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits. Byte may also refer to BytemagazineBytemagazine , a computer industry magazine Bytes album Bytes album , an album by Black Dog Productions Byte dinghy , a dinghy Byte retailer , an unsuccessful computer retailer in the United Kingdom See also Bite , an act that occurs when an animal uses its teeth to pierce another object, including food, flesh and inanimate matter Bight disambiguation disambiguation de Byte Begriffskl rung es Intercambio fr Byte homonymie gl Byte hom nimos he nn Byte pt Byte desambigua o ru Byte sl Byte razlo itev sv Byte ... more details
Unreferenced date September 2007 Byte orientation refers to forms of data processing in which digital data are processed byte wise. For example, communication is called byte oriented or character oriented when the transmitted information is grouped into byte s. The latter term is deprecated, since the notion of character computing character has changed. An ASCII character fits to one byte octet computing octet in terms of the amount of information. With the internationalization of computer software, wide character s became necessary, to handle texts in different languages. In particular, Unicode characters can be 8, 16, or 32 bits long, i.e., 1, 2, or 4 bytes. Byte oriented transmission makes use of byte oriented protocol s, that may involve transmission of additional bits as terminators, means of error recovery, etc. Another approaches, alternative to byte oriented , are bit oriented this opposition resemble a distinction of binary file binary and text file s and word oriented . See also Word orientation Byte stream Byte oriented protocol Byte Stream Protocol Category Computing terminology ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 In computer science , a byte stream is a bit stream , in which data bit s are grouped into units, called byte s. In computer networking the term octet stream is sometimes used to refer to the same thing it emphasizes the use of bytes having the length of 8 bits, known as Octet computing octets . Formally, a byte stream is a certain abstraction , a communication channel down which one entity can send a sequence of bytes to the entity on the other end. Such channel is often bidirectional, but sometimes unidirectional. In almost all instances, the channel has the property that it is reliable i.e. exactly the same bytes emerge, in exactly the same order, at the other end. Less formally, one can think of it as a Electrical conduit conduit between the two entities one entity can insert bytes into the conduit, and the other entity then receives them. This conduit can be ephemeral or Persistence computer science persistent . Examples On most operating systems , including Unix like and Microsoft Windows Windows , access of any Computer file file from a process is an example of a byte stream. In particular each process has three standard stream s, that are examples of unidirectional byte streams. A Pipeline Unix pipe mechanism is often used to connect them between processes, to enable process to process byte streams. One well known example of a communication protocol which provides a byte stream service to its clients is the Transmission Control Protocol TCP of the Internet protocol suite , which provides a bidirectional byte stream. The Internet media type for an arbitrary byte stream is tt application octet stream tt . Other media types are defined for byte streams in well known formats. See also Stream computing Bit stream Flow computer networking Reliable byte stream Byte orientation Byte oriented protocol Byte Stream Protocol DEFAULTSORT Byte Stream Category Data transmission Category Computer networking ja zh ... more details
Byte addressing refers to hardware architectures which support accessing individual byte s of data rather than only larger units called word orientation words , which would be word addressable . The basic unit of digital storage is called a bit . In most common Computer Architecture computer architectures , 8 bits are grouped together to form a byte . Byte addressable memory refers to architectures where data can be accessed 8 bits at a time, irrespective of the width of the data and address buses. Many common architectures can address more than 8 bits of data at a time. For example, the Intel 386SX processor can handle 16 bit two byte data, since data is transferred over a 16 bit computer bus bus . However, data in memory may be of various lengths. A 64 bit architecture machine might still need to access byte sized data over its 64 bit address line. Such memory, which is accessible in 8 bit segments, is called Byte Addressable Memory. Hence it is called byte addressable memory. Unreferenced date April 2007 compu hardware stub DEFAULTSORT Byte addressing Category Computer architecture Category Central processing unit de Bytemaschine ja ... more details
The Byte Works , founded and run by Mike Westerfield , was a key player in the history of developer tools for Apple II computers. Its first product, the ORCA M assembler O bject R elocatable C ode A ssembler for M icrocomputers , and also MACRO spelled backwards , developed jointly by Westerfield and Phil Montoya , was a powerful assembly language development environment, complete with a Unix style shell, which ran on 8 bit Apple II computers. However, The Byte Works came into its own when Apple Computer was developing the Apple IIgs Apple IIgs computer. In need of developer tools, they contacted The Byte Works and came to an agreement by which The Byte Works would develop the official developer tool suite for the Apple IIgs the Apple Programmer s Workshop APW . This tool suite eventually would include an assembler as well as a C compiler. The Byte Works was also able to distribute its own developer tool suite, based on the same code as APW. The ORCA M assembler came first, followed by ORCA Pascal , ORCA C , and several other languages, including ORCA Modula 2 and ORCA Integer BASIC . The Byte Works did produce software other than developer tools, although tools were their mainstay. The Quick Click Calc spreadsheet was an excellent spreadsheet for the Apple IIgs, although it arrived on the scene too late to have any major impact on the market. An easy to use and very powerful BASIC interpreter called GSoft BASIC was also eventually released in the mid 1990s. With the ability to communicate with the Apple IIgs Toolbox , it could be used to produce powerful software with a minimum of effort. The Byte Works ceased development of Apple II software in 2000 and licensed its entire product line to Syndicomm, which continues to publish its extensive library to this day. External links http store.syndicomm.com index.php?manufacturers id 11 Byte Works products still available for purchase DEFAULTSORT Byte Works Category Defunct software companies Category Companies disestablished ... more details
refimprove date May 2011 Byte Bandit is a boot sector computer virus created for the Commodore Business Machines Commodore Amiga . It first appeared in January 1988, and was created by SCA virus SCA . It was one of the most feared Amiga viruses until the infamous Lamer Exterminator computer virus Lamer Exterminator because not only did it spread from system to system automatically, it was also destructive. Byte Bandit made no attempt to disguise itself as modern viruses, trojans, and worms do. While it naturally over wrote the bootblock, it also hooked into the system, remaining reset resident and causing system data corruption and system failures. The virus increments a copy counter every time it writes itself to a disk, which is in the text string Virus by Byte Bandit in 9.87. Number of copys which also gives a date of September 1987 for the creation, as well as the assumed name of the programmer. References Reflist External links http www.sca.ch Swiss Cracking Association s homepage http agn www.informatik.uni hamburg.de catalog amiga html byteba7.htm Detailed virus information. http ave.teyko.com view.php?id 17&name Byte Bandit 1 Byte Bandit Virus description at the Amiga Virus Encyclopedia malware stub Category Amiga viruses ms Byte Bandit ... more details
infobox record label image founded 1988 founder Jean Paul De Coster distributor genre dance music , eurodance , Hi NRG , soul music Soul country Belgium url http www.byte.be Official website of Byte Records Byte Records is a Belgian based Independent record label independent music label specialized into dance music . The company was founded by DJ Jean Paul De Coster in 1988 and is named after his former record store in Antwerp . Successful acts have included 2 Unlimited , Sash and Sylver . Through the years the label had several sub labels like B Byte Blue , Byte Progressive, Discomatic and La Belle Noir. One of the first Byte releases was Don t Miss The Party Line by Jean Paul De Coster and Peter Neefs as Bizz Nizz . The single was licensed by Cooltempo, a sub label of Chrysalis now EMI and became a top 10 hit in the UK by the end of the 1980 s. Together with producer Phil Wilde Jean Paul De Coster formed the producers duo behind famous Eurodance act 2 Unlimited in the beginning of the 1990s. Licenses were giving by Byte to PWL PWL Continental and ZYX Music and the act sold more than 20 million records and 50 million compilations worldwide, giving Byte Record a tremendous boost. Other Eurodance acts followed and Byte became a household name in the dance community. Most of the artist became popular in Belgium , The Netherlands and Germany like Timeshift, CB Milton, Red 5, Sash and DJ Peter Project. But due to the bad economical climate in the music industry Byte had to reduce his activities over the years. Since early 2004 dance act Sylver is the only remaining act signed by Byte Records. List of Artists Bizz Nizz 2 Unlimited Timeshift CB Milton Ice MC 740 Boyz Murray Head Red 5 Sash The Oh Phats & Small DJ Peter Project Atlantis 6 Sylver Zippora D Devils External links http www.byte.be Byte Records official website no longer active http www.discogs.com label Byte Records Byte Records releases on Discorg Category Electronic dance music record labels Category House m ... more details
Infobox Sailboat Specifications name Byte image Byte CII.svg imagesize alt caption class symbol class image Bytesailboatlogo.jpg class imagealt class imagesize 120 crew 1 type Monohull design construction Glass reinforced plastic GRP rig keel trapeze loa Convert 12 ft m abbr on loh lwl beam Convert 4 ... The Byte is a one man sailing dinghy . It is produced by xtreme Sailing Products of Singapore and PS2000 ... is composed of glass reinforced polyester and foam sandwich. The Byte is designed for sailors ... kg should have no problems sailing this boat on a recreational basis. The Byte sail size is only ... that a Byte were to be sailed in a race environment against a Laser Radial, the Byte s Portsmouth ... more than four minutes faster to beat the Byte. A new design known as the CII , with a fully ... depowering and a much needed update to the previous byte rig. The inspiration for the new rig and sail ... over the Byte CII as the women s boat for the 2008 Olympics. Experienced Byte CII sailors often exclaim their surprise of the apparent difference from the standard Byte. Often these same sailors will also express surprise of the speed of the CII compared to the Byte. The introduction of two ... design sail boats. Although the Byte class operates on numerous continents, and there are fleets around the world the critical mass of boats necessary to hold a Byte regatta is only found with few exceptions in Canada, Singapore, Bermuda, Great Britain and Switzerland. In the U.S. it is doubtful if the Byte ... Full Rig as the hulls are identical. Recently, the byte has come under fire because the Canadian ... as a junior class, that is, to sailors 16 years of age and younger in Canada. Information on the Byte and other PS2000 products http www.ps2000.ca boats byte byte.htm http www.sailing.org classes BYT.php ISAF Byte Microsite International Sailing Federation Classes Sailing dinghies and skiffs Category ... classes Category Two person sailboats fr Byte d riveur is Byte k na it Byte natante ... more details
Byte Computer Superstores Ltd was a retail venture of Specialist Computer Holdings Ltd in the United Kingdom which from 1993 sold primarily computer hardware, software and accessories in large stores on retail parks, similar to PC World retailer PC World . The company was acquired by PC World in 1998 who re branded or closed each store leaving the Byte name to no longer exist. In January 2012 Birmingham United Kingdom based Entrepreneur Khalid Hassan re launched the Byte brand as an online retailer specialising in Gadget s, Gizmo s and the latest Technology offerings from all over the world. Mr Hassan was quoted as saying This is a much loved, respected and missed brand that has been allowed to fade away...its time to bring it back into the forefront of technology retailing . DEFAULTSORT Byte Retailer Category Consumer electronics retailers of the United Kingdom ... more details
HTTP Byte serving is the process of sending only a portion of an HTTP 1.1 message from a server to a client. Clients which request byte serving might do so in cases in which a large file has been only partially delivered and a limited portion of the file is needed in a particular range. Byte Serving is therefore a method of bandwidth optimization . ref http www.research.att.com bala papers h0vh1.html Key Differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 A typical example is a server s sending an entire large resource when the client only needs a small part of it. There was no way in HTTP 1.0 to request partial objects... HTTP 1.1 range requests allow a client to request portions of a resource. ref In the HTTP 1.0 standard, clients were only able to request an entire document. By allowing byte serving, clients may choose to request any portion of the resource. One advantage of this capability is when a large media file is being requested, and that media file is properly formatted, the client may be able to request just the portions of the file known to be of interest. This has been reported to work for some PDF files and clients in which a client may request a certain page, rather than the entire file. Other names for byte serving Section 14.35.2 of RFC 2616 says the client makes Range Retrieval Requests when it makes a partial content request Clients make range requests ref http www.apacheweek.com ... bala papers h0vh1.html Key Differences between HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1 ref Byte Range Serving ref http www 1.ibm.com support docview.wss?uid swg27003226 Byte Range Serving in Domino R5 Server ref Page on demand ref http computing dictionary.thefreedictionary.com byte serving byte serving definition of byte serving in the Free Online Encyclopedia Bot generated title ref Byte serving can also be used ... Encoding is not byte serving, but is instead a method in which an HTTP 1.1 server sends the entire ... to reuse the connection after the response is completed. Byte serving and chunking are compatible ... more details
Sky Byte is the name of several fictional characters in the various Transformers universes . He is usually ... name Sky Byte japanname Gelshark image skybyte rid.jpg caption Predacon Officer Sky Byte affiliation ... publisher Infobase Publishing ISBN 978 0 8160 6599 8 page 657 ref All Sky Byte really wants is for Megatron ... is, and he goes to great lengths to prove his resourcefulness to him. Unfortunately for Sky Byte, things ... fools he has under him Slapper, Darkscream and Gas Skunk. Sky Byte frequently manages to shunt .... The Predacon Transformers Predacon trio don t like or respect Sky Byte and frequently disobey his orders for his part Sky Byte doesn t like them either, often using his threatening visage to cow them ... s even less, ensuring Gas Skunk, Darkscream and Slapper are actually willing to follow Sky Byte s orders to discredit them. His fierce outer appearance aside, there is also a softer side to Sky Byte, he ... up your mind Hamlet To Be or not to Be ? This guy can t make up his mind either Sky Byte found poetry ... ruminating over the destruction of his enemies . Animated series Sky Byte was a major character in Transformers ... occasion Sky Byte even convinced the other three Predacons to dress up as Autobots to thwart Scourge s plan and make Scourge look bad in Megatron s eyes. Like most of Sky Byte s plans however, little ... fall over Sky Byte, spurred on by the fact they had actually been cheering him, saved the humans lives, an act that convinced the Autobots that there was some hope for Sky Byte after all. Subsequently ... of the pyramid containing the Orbs of Sigma. Around this time Sky Byte began to have a rethink about ..., but Sky Byte was allowed to remain on Earth. Ironically, Slapper, Gas Skunk and Darkscream ..., Sky Byte is one of the most feared and respected Predacon warriors. He s a merciless warrior in battle ... found himself temporarily stranded on land. Dreamwave Productions Sky Byte made one appearance in the Dreamwave ... Magnus Transformers Robots in Disguise Ultra Magnus Sky Byte took advantage of the situation and had ... more details
Infobox Defunct company company name Bug Byte Software Ltd company logo Image Bug byte logo 200.png company type video game developer location Liverpool , England foundation 1980 defunct 1985 industry Computer and video game industry Computer and video games products Personal computer game Computer games key people Tony Baden, Tony Milner Bug Byte Software Ltd. was a company founded in 1980 by Tony Baden and Tony Milner, two Oxford University Oxford chemistry graduates. It was one of the first to develop a range of 8 bit computer games during the early 1980s, for Sinclair Research Sinclair , Commodore International Commodore and other home computer brands, particularly for the ZX Spectrum Spectrum . Among the better known titles are Manic Miner and Twin Kingdom Valley . The company was based in Liverpool , England , and helped found a number of software houses in that region. In 1983, programmer Eugene Evans and two of the senior staff left to form Imagine Software . Later in the year Matthew Smith games programmer Matthew Smith , a freelance developer who wrote Manic Miner , left to join Software Projects . In May 1985, after a difficult trading season and a shake out in the industry, the company went into voluntary liquidation, and the rights to their games and brand were purchased by Argus Press PLC . Argus continued to release both new games and budget versions of their own software under the Bug Byte name via subsidiary Argus Press Software Ltd. Argus Press Software Ltd became Grandslam Entertainment in 1987 after a management buy out. Software products Div col Aardvark video game Aardvark 1986 Another Vic in the Wall Aquarius Astertroids Automan 1985 Backgammon Birds and the Bees The Birds and the Bees II Antics 1985 Bomber Bob BOP 1986 Break Out Cavern Fighter Chess ... Div col end External links http www.mobygames.com company bug byte Bug Byte at MobyGames http www.crashonline.org.uk ... disestablished in 1985 de Bug Byte it Bug Byte ... more details
Infobox VG title Snake Byte image caption developer Sirius Software Inc. publisher Sirius Software Inc. designer released 1982 genre Action game Action modes Single player video game One player only platforms Apple II family Apple II Snake Byte is a 1982 in video gaming 1982 computer game video game publisher published by Sirius Software Inc. for the Apple II family Apple II , Atari 8 bit family Atari 8 bit computers and Commodore 64 . Summary The player controls a snake, crawling into a rectangular area. At the start of the game the snake has three lives and gains a life when it successfully exits a level. The aim is to eat 10 apples in each of the 25 levels. If an apple is not eaten during the given deadline, three extra apples are to be eaten. The snake becomes longer and moves more quickly with each apple eaten. The snake loses a life when crashing into a fence, the wall or itself. After the last apple in each round is eaten the snake must exit the area through a gate which appears. Higher levels have more complicated fences, making the area more difficult to navigate. An optional difficulty is the plums one or two pieces which bounce around within the area and kill the snake when they hit its head. References reflist External links moby game id snake byte Category 1982 video games Category Action video games Category Apple II games Category Apple II only games action videogame stub ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 A guard byte is a part of computer program s memory that helps software developers find buffer overflows while developing the program. Principle When a computer program program is compiler compiled for debugging , all Memory computers memory allocations are prefixed and postfixed by guard bytes. Special memory allocation subroutine routines may then perform additional tasks to determine unwanted read and write attempts outside the allocated memory. These extra bytes help to detect that the program is writing into or even reading from inappropriate memory areas, potentially causing buffer overflow s. In case of accessing these bytes by the program s algorithm, the programmer is warned with information assisting him to locate the problem. Checking for the inappropriate access to the guard bytes may be done in two ways by setting a memory breakpoint on a condition of write and or read to those bytes, or by pre initializing the guard bytes with specific values and checking the values upon deallocation. The first way is possible only with a debugger that handles such breakpoints, but significantly increases the chance of locating the problem. The second way does not require any debuggers or special Integrated development environment environments and can be done even on other computers, but the programmer is alerted about the overflow only upon the deallocation, which is sometimes quite late. Because guard bytes require additional code to be executed and additional memory to be allocated, they are used only when the program is compiled for debugging. When compiled as a release , guard bytes are not used at all, neither the routines working with them. Example A programmer wants to allocate a Buffer computer science buffer of 100 bytes of memory while debugging. The system memory allocating subroutine routine will allocate ... of access to those bytes in a debugger. DEFAULTSORT Guard Byte Category Programming idioms Category ... more details
Byte Information eXchange ref http everything2.com index.pl?node id 1387786 Article on BIX at everything.com ref BIX was an online service created around 1985 by BytemagazineBytemagazine . It was a text only Bulletin Board System style site running the CoSy computer conferencing system CoSy conferencing software running originally on an Arete multiprocessor system based on Motorola 68000s. When that didn t scale well, it was ported to run on Pyramid. When that became too expensive to run, it was ported to a Digital Equipment Corporation DEC Alpha server. McGraw Hill also used the same software internally. Access was via local dial in or for additional hourly charges, the Tymnet X.25 network. Monthly rates were initially 13 month for the account and 1 hour for X.25 access. Unlike CompuServe , access at higher speeds was not surcharged. Many of the Byte staff were active on the service. Later, gateways permitted email communication outside the system. BIX was acquired by the Delphi online service in 1992. In the mid 1990s the Internet became more available to the masses and Usenet , mailing lists , and competing services such as CompuServe and America Online were able to offer flat rate services, which adversely affected BIX membership levels. In the late 1990s, as the Internet became more mainstream, membership and activity plummeted forcing BIX to cut pricing to 40 per year, with no per hour connection charge by using the Internet for access. Lower prices and full page ads in Bytemagazine were unsuccessful in turning the service around. Consequently, BIX was shut down in 2001. Some members created a new service, based on an open source version of CoSy computer conferencing system CoSy , called NLZ ref http everything2.com index.pl?node id 1389513 Article at everything.com on NLZ ref Noise Level Zero ref http www.nlzero.com NLZ s website ref where they continue what remained of the service, with many of the same conferences and topics that were active at the end of Delphi ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Byte oriented framing protocol is similar to bit oriented protocol except that instead of viewing the frame as a collection of bits, byte oriented framing views the frame as a collection of bytes. For example UART communication is byte oriented. See also Bit oriented protocol DEFAULTSORT Byte Oriented Protocol Category Data transmission Telecomm stub ... more details
Love at First Byte is a play on words of the phrase love at first sight and may refer to Love at First Byte , 2000 book by Christine Harris author Christine Harris Television Love First Byte The Secret Science of Online Dating , 2012 CNBC documentary Episodes Love at First Byte , List of The Facts of Life episodes The Facts of Life , 1984 Love at First Byte , Small Wonder TV series Small Wonder , 1988 Love at First Byte , Hurricanes TV series Hurricanes , 1994 See also Love at First Bite 1950 film Love at First Bite 1950 film Love at First Bite , 1979 film dab ... more details
Byte pair encoding or digram coding ref Ian H. Witten, Alistair Moffat, and Timothy C. Bell. Managing Gigabytes . New York Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1994. ISBN 9780442018634. ref is a simple form of data compression in which the most common pair of consecutive byte s of data is replaced with a byte that does not occur within that data. A table of the replacements is required to rebuild the original data. The algorithm was first described publicly by Philip Gage in a February 1994 article A New Algorithm for Data Compression in the C Users Journal . ref cite web url http www.csse.monash.edu.au cluster RJK Compress problem.html title Byte Pair Encoding ref Byte pair encoding example Suppose we wanted to encode the data aaabdaaabac The byte pair aa occurs most often, so it will be replaced by a byte that is not used in the data, Z . Now we have the following data and replacement table ZabdZabac Z aa Then we repeat the process with byte pair ab , replacing it with Y ZYdZYac Y ab Z aa We could stop here, as the only literal byte pair left occurs only once. Or we could continue the process and use Recursion recursive byte pair encoding, replacing ZY with X XdXac X ZY Y ab Z aa This data cannot be compressed further by byte pair encoding because there are no pairs of bytes that occur more than once. To decompress the data, simply perform the replacements in the reverse order. References reflist Compression Methods DEFAULTSORT Byte Pair Encoding Category Lossless compression algorithms ar ja BPE zh ... more details
Bit, byte, gebissen was a Germany German radio program. It was the first program on computer topics, produced by the Bayerischer Rundfunk Bavarian Broadcasting . Bit, byte, gebissen was broadcast from October 1985 to September 1993. The idea was of the radio program was born out of the boom of home computer s and video game console s starting to fascinate youngsters at the beginning of the 1980s. Another successful program on computer topics for adolescent radio listeners was Chippie from the Hessischer Rundfunk Hessian Broadcasting , starting in 1990. External links http www.br online.de jugend zuendfunk onair projekt 30 projekt30 statements.shtml Die Z ndfunk Hall of Fame Das erste Computermagazin de icon DEFAULTSORT Bit, Byte, Gebissen Category 1985 radio programme debuts Category German radio programs de Bit, byte, gebissen ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Orphan date December 2009 In SCSI computer systems, there is a special case with mixed 8 bit and 16 bit devices where high byte termination may be required. Most parallel SCSI busses are terminated at each end. However where the bus width is not constant, it is sometimes necessary to provide special termination for the high byte and the associated parity bit. This high byte termination can use standard SCSI termination techniques, such as a passive terminator, active terminator, or a forced perfect terminator. This diagram shows a typical SCSI high byte termination scheme Image high byte termination.JPG There is a simplification to this which is sometimes used in the case where there is only one 16 bit wide device connected to one or more 8 bit narrow devices. Then it is possible to wire all the eight spare data bits and the ninth parity bit together and to terminate them with a single resistor circuit to TERMPOWER. So in the case of a differential SCSI bus, it is possible to terminate all 18 spare signal wires with just one resistor. This method is not considered good practice, but has been successfully used in some SCSI products. DEFAULTSORT Scsi High Byte Termination Category SCSI ... more details
Infobox Company company name Ubisoft Blue Byte company logo File Blue Byte Logo.jpg vector logo company type Subsidiary of Ubisoft genre foundation 1988 founder location city location country location D sseldorf , Germany origins founder Thomas Hertzler and Lothar Schmitt area served industry Video game ... Blue Byte s official website dissolved footnotes Ubisoft Blue Byte ref http static4.cdn.ubi.com UbisoftWorldwideStudiosENGOct08 ..., the company was purchased by Ubisoft . History Blue Byte Software was founded by Thomas Hertzler and Lothar ... Courts , released in 1989 by Ubisoft then called Ubi Soft . Blue Byte s first big success in Germany ... of Blue Byte s products. Over the years, Blue Byte developed and or video game publisher published ..., Blue Byte moved from Chicago, Illinois, to its new facilities in Austin, Texas. The popular turn ... turn based strategies. In January 2001, Blue Byte was acquired by Ubisoft , ref Ho, Jennifer. http www.gamespot.com news 2683947.html Ubi Soft acquires Blue Byte Software , February 8, 2001. accessed Jan 21 2010 ref and tasked to focus on Blue Byte s two most popular series. As of 2004 in video games 2004 , Blue Byte released the newest game of the Settlers series under the name Die Siedler Das ... in autumn 2006. A downloadable demo is now available from their website. Ubisoft and Blue Byte announced ... under Blue Byte s label Play Byte The Settlers 1993 Strategy Battle Isle II 1994 Strategy ... references External links http www.bluebyte.net Blue Byte s official website http www.mobygames.com company blue byte studio gmbh MobyGames entry on Blue Byte Software de icon http www.ubisoft.de bv bb games List of Blue Byte productions http diesiedler2.de.ubi.com The Settlers II remake German ... in 1988 Category Video game developers ar cs Blue Byte Software de Blue Byte es Blue Byte fr Blue Byte Software it Ubisoft Blue Byte nl Blue Byte pl Blue Byte Software pt Blue Byte Software ru Ubisoft Blue Byte simple Blue Byte Software tr Blue Byte Software uk Blue Byte Software ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Orphan date February 2009 Time To First Byte or TTFB is a measurement that is often used as an indication of the responsiveness of a webserver or other Computer network network resources. It is the duration from the virtual user making an HTTP request to the first byte of the page being received by the browser. This time is made up of the socket connection time, the time taken to send the HTTP request and the time to taken to get the first byte of the page. This can be measured using Microsoft s Application Center Test ACT . Other uses TTFB can also stand for 4,5,6,7 tetrachloro 2 tri uoromethylbezimidazole, a mitochondrial respiratory chain uncoupler. Category Network performance Compu network stub ... more details
A zero byte file or zero length file is a computer file containing no data that is, it has a length or size of zero bytes. Zero byte files cannot be loaded or used by most applications. Even a file describing an empty word processor document , an image file with zero by zero dimensions, or an audio file of length zero seconds usually still contains metadata identifying the file format and describing some basic attributes of the file. Some very simple file formats do not use metadata, such as ASCII text file s these may validly be zero bytes. Zero byte files may arise in cases where a program creates a file but aborts or is interrupted prematurely while writing to it. Because writes are cache computing cached in Random access memory memory and only flushed to disk at a later time page cache , a program that does not flush its writes to disk or terminate normally may result in a zero byte file. In some cases zero byte files may be used to convey information using file metadata for example, its filename may contain an instruction to a user viewing a directory listing or to ensure that a directory is nonempty, since some tools such as backup and revision control software treat empty directories differently from nonempty ones. For example the file you were looking for has been moved to partition D.txt if this file is here something broke in the last run.txt software type stub Category Files ... more details
Encyclopedia
top
