Thread: 'Interesting' discussion from CN EU NTU 2016.10 preview

I'm just messin' with you mate. Fact remains that Mb is for megabit and MB is for megabyte though, regardless of common/informal/incorrect usage ....speaking of zeros and ones and discordant music: 01000111 01001001 01001111 01001101 01000101 01001110 ... recognise the tune?

You're quite right that megabit is not much used in a PC environment these days as it was back when you and i were both pups. There's good reason for that i think, other than the size of a 'bit' being almost superfluous in the overall sizes now being used [much the same as 1 cent and 2 cent coins no longer exist in Australia, but $1.01 or $99.02 etc are still valid amounts of the currency, a 'bit' is still a valid measure of data size]. The real reason i believe, is that a 'byte' can be so many 'bits' depending on the environment used, and the original definition of a byte as 1 data word. So, 1 byte = 4 bits in a 4-bit CPU world, 1 byte = 8 bits in a 8-bit one, 1 byte = 16 bits in a 16-bit one, and so on. Too damned confusing anyway. But the term megabit was well used in the old 16-bit PC era as a measure of data storage capacity.