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Kbps
Kilobit per second (kbps) is a data transfer rate equal to 1,000 bits per second or 125 bytes per second. Data transfer rates refer to the amount of time it takes for blocks of data to be transferred from one piece of equipment to another.

Kermit
Kermit is a file transfer protocol and management system used primarily in the 1980s. Kermit provides a reliable transfer source but it is very slow in comparison to other transfer protocols available today.

Kilobyte (Kb)
There are a number of abbreviations for kilobyte including k, KB, Kb, Kbyte, or K-byte. A kilobyte is a unit of measure for digital storage space. 1 kilobyte is equal to1024 bytes.

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Binary

There are two meanings for binary in common computer usage. The first is the name of the number system in which there are only zeros and ones. This is important to computers because all computer data is ultimately a series of zeros and ones, and thus can be represented by binary numbers. The second is an offshoot of the first; data that is not meant to be intepreted through a common character set (like ASCII) is typically referred to as binary data. Pure binary data is typically eight bit data, and transferring a binary file through ASCII channels without prior modification will result in corruption and loss of data. Binary data can be turned into ASCII data via uucoding or bcoding.

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