I have a quibble with this discussion. When I defined a "byte" as "a mouthful
of bits" to my boss back in 1977, he nearly fired me on the spot. He did not
care about PDP-10 , much less PDP-11, data constructs.
By now, octet has become essentially synonymous with byte and nibble with
4-bits. Could we just refer to "n octets"?
Cutler
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On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:14, Scott Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> If 8 bits is a byte, then 16 bits should be a mouthful.
>
> When does it become a meal and, more importantly, do you want to
> supper (sic) size?
>
>
> RIchard
>
James R. Cutler
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