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Dial-up vs. High Speed Access
Many people are switching from dial-up internet
services to high speed direct access services such as ISDN, DSL, and cable. It
has been predicted that by 2005 only 8% of internet users will be using dial-up
services. The following is a brief explanation of the differences between the
four types of service. Several helpful links are contained in this article.
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Bits,Bytes & Terabytes
When we
were children we learned about inches and feet. Now it's bits, bytes and
terabytes! What are they, anyway?
Bits and bytes are units of
measurements, of course--they're what we use to measure computer memory. The
following definitions may make it a little bit clearer:
A BIT is the smallest unit of measure of
computerized data. It takes eight bits to equal a single character.
A
BYTE consists of eight bits, or the size of a single character.
A MEGABYTE consists of a
million bytes, or the contents of a floppy disk or a book.
A
GIGABYTE consists of a thousand megabytes, or about the size of the
Encyclopedia Britannica, according to archive.org.
A TERABYTE is equivalent
to a million megabytes, or the contents of about a thousand copies of the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
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