It is different but honeywell computers used to use what was called a bit and half to a bite. The bites were 12 bit's so that they could have a higher transfer information if I remember correctly. But it been a long time since I played with 1's and 0's.
24 bit/44.1?
The digi out on my B&K phono 10 is supposedly ( according to the manual) a 24bit/44.1 signal? Does this make sense ? BTW - whatever it is -sounds great thru my Becnchmark DAC-1.