[geeks] Well, THAT was a setback

[Jonathan Groll]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 03:14:17PM +0200, gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> What I'm NOT doing is mixing bits and bytes. The original quote was
> 40megaBYTES per second for the tape drive, so I converted my figures
> into bytes. 
>
> A single bit serial link (e.g. 100BaseT) has a RAW bit rate of 100 megaBYTES
> per second, or 12.5 megaBYTES. So if I said I was seeing 3-4 megaBYTES per
> second throughput, that translates to 24 to 32 megaBITS per second,
> sustsained rate. 
>

I've always wondered about the relevance of the 8 bit byte in today's
world where the majority of (desktop) processors are no longer 8
bit. 

Is there some elephant in the room that I can't see?

Cheers,
Jonathan