19 Nov
2010
19 Nov
'10
12:21 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 17:58, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
It is always two bytes. A byte is not always an octet. Some machines do have byte sizes other than 8 bits
Vice versa. It's always two octects, but on some systems it may not be two bytes.
, although few of them are likely to have IPv6 stacks, so, this may be an academic distinction at this point.
Agreed. We can revisit this once we all own a few portable quantum computers, though :) Richard