Gunzel??

["Rufus" <rufus.dog@mpx.com.au>]

my friend Velli-Pekka from Finland, the land of the long night. finds it
pretty hard to stay amused all night long[about 2 months long where he
lives] sends me these gems.;o)

Dr. Computer Science answers computer questions ...

Q:  What are bits and bytes?

A:  Bits and Bytes are what a binary (base 2) computer uses to think.
Binary computers only think about food, so the units of thought are
expressed in terms of eating processes.  A bit is the smallest amount of
cauliflower your child can eat and still get away with saying that he has
had a bit of cauliflower.  A byte is an entire piece of cauliflower.
A byte usually contains eight bits, unless you are eating on a DEC, some of
which allow a byte to vary in size from a single bit to 36 bits.  This is
possible only on a DEC since only there can your child manage to drop small
pieces of cauliflower through the spaces between the floorboards, leaving
fewer bits on the plate.  With fewer bits on the plate, each bit is a larger
percentage of the whole, so a byte gets smaller.

apologies Rod!