2007-07-24 03:54:52 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
A kilobyte is 1024 bytes. A byte is 8 bits. A bit is a unit of digital information which can either be a '1' or a '0'.
A megabyte is 1000 or 1024 kilobytes, depending on who you ask. Usually 1000.
A megahertz is 1000 Hertz. A Hertz is a unit of frequency equal to one cycle per second. So a megahertz is 1000 cycles per second.
Baud rate refers to the number of bits per second transferred across a communications link. So 2 megabaud is equal to 2 million bits per second being transferred.
2007-07-24 04:02:53 · answer #1 · answered by knatch 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
kilobytes = 1000 bytes (one thousand)
megabytes = 1,000,000 bytes (one million)
A byte is 8 bits. A bit is a 1 or 0 in digital, base 2 a.k.a. binary.
Megahertz = 1 million cycles per second. You alternating current (AC) electricity in your North American home runs at 60 hertz.
Baud rate is the number per second of bits that can be transmitted over a medium. Most often associated with analog modems. Analog modems convert the digital (binary) signal from the computer into an analog signal that the old style telephone network understands. The modem guys have found fancy ways to pack multiple bits into a single analog cycle, but the current V.92 standard is probably the end of that magic.
2007-07-24 04:06:10 · answer #2 · answered by Fester Frump 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Kilobytes and megabytes are meaures of data capacity.
A "byte" is eight binary digits, or "bits." A byte has the capacity to store a single ASCII character or a binary integer between zero and 255.
A kilobyte, then, is 1,024 bytes, and a megabyte is 1,024 kilobytes, or roughtly a million charactrers of information.
"Hertz" is named for Rudolph Hertz, the German physicist who first correctly understood what we now call radio waves. One hertz is one cycle per second of AC current. Your wall outlet gives 60 hertz current in the USA, or 50 hertz in many other parts of the world.
The "baud" rate is named for Henri Baudot, a French electrical engineer who designed the first teletype system. One baud = one pulse or bit per second. 56,000 baud means 56,000 bits per second.
2007-07-24 04:11:30 · answer #3 · answered by aviophage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What's a baud rate? If anyone knows, I'd like to find out too.
2007-07-24 04:02:04 · answer #4 · answered by rothj06 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
kilobyets and megabytes are units of storage capacities
1 MB = 1024 KB
megahertz is unit of frequency (used to measure memory and processor clock speed in the PC)
2007-07-24 03:59:03 · answer #5 · answered by Nishit 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋