Sentence examples for the bytes from inspiring English sources
noun
A sequence of adjacent bits (binary digits) that can be operated on as a unit by a computer; the smallest usable machine word; nearly always eight bits, which can represent an integer from 0 to 255 or a single character of text.
For us, the bytes were worth the bites.
Keep the F.B.I. as far away as possible from the bits and the bytes, the RAM's and the ROM's.
Most cannot count on historians to pore over, sift and cull the bytes and pieces of their lives.
Talking with teenagers about sex has been a "parental quandary" since long before the bits and the bytes complicated the birds and the bees.
It is if you're Cisco or Seagate, who couldn't care less whether the bytes they're making provision for are encoding World of Warcraft or home videos of dancing toddlers.
STORING THE BYTES New storage methods will be critical to harnessing the gigabytes of data now pouring in from those mobile devices, as well as the Web, social networks and video.
The byte, in other words, has to travel with a suitcase of dictionaries.
The byte wakes up and is ejected from its storage disc.
Because the byte had its roots in binary digits, originally one kilobyte was not 1,000 bytes but 1,024 bytes (1,024 = 210), and thus one megabyte (MB) was 1,024 × 1,024 bytes and so on.
It hurls the byte towards an "interface card", which comes from yet another vendor, and the card directs the byte into one of the datacentre's many back-office computers, called "servers".This causes the byte some momentary confusion, because the datacentre has servers that were assembled by different makers, such as IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems or Dell.
