The authors describe a simple and flexible counter interface, which can reduce the typical eight-bit position information of commercially available channel-plate detectors to a smaller number of counting channels. The number and width of these channels may be chosen arbitrarily under software control, according to the experimental requirements. It is demonstrated that fast data processing is then possible using a standard personal compute
http://iopscience.iop.org/0022-3735/20/3/005;jsessionid=A2DD...

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octeto

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http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octeto

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Octets vs. Bytes

Octet always refers to an 8-bit quantity (whence the name). When talking of networks this term is sometimes preferred over the term byte.

Byte usually refers to an 8-bit quantity. More precisely, it means the smallest amount of memory that a CPU can address individually (using bit shifting and logical operators you can address even single bits). There used to be a few computers that had bytes with more and less than 8 bits. Nowadays it's probably safe to assume that a byte comprises always 8 bits, but if you want to put an emphasis on that exact amount of 8 bits you probably should say octet.

While we are at it, there's also the nibble which means half an 8-bit byte (half an octet). This term is, however, rarely used

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http://www.geo.unizh.ch/~uruetsch/docs/byteoctet.html

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OR OCTECT