Baud A unit which to measure the speed of modems run roughly equivalent to 1 bit per second. All information stored on and used by a computer is in the form of binary code. Because the extended characters found in binary files may be peculiar to a particular computer platform, most binary files cannot be used on more than one system. See binary file transfer . This allows software etc. to be transferred on the Internet by e-mail.
BinHexed files have the file extension .hqx .
These voltages are represented by the digits 0 and 1. Bit is short for binary digit , and is the smallest unit of information used by computers. A bitmaped or raster image breaks an picture nto a grid of equally-sized pieces, called pixels, and records color information for each pixel. A measure of the number of bits transferred per second over a communications channel. Modem speeds, measured in bps, are defined by modulation protocols.