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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k,comp.std.internat,comp.arch
Subject: Re: How do you say "byte" in French?
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Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 17:21:53 EST
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In article <2523@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <125@ogesml0.UUCP> ciaran@ogesml0.UUCP (Ciaran O'Donnell) writes:
>> vitesse 25 Mhz, zero wait states, 1 megaoctet de RAM dynamique sur la carte)
>We have enough trouble here teaching
>people that a byte doesn't have to be 8 bits -- if you call it an "octet",

A byte doesn't have to be 8 bits?  I thought a byte was *always*
8 bits.  I thought a "word", or in C a "char" could be any number of
bits, but that the "byte" was 8 bits.

So what about a "nibble"?

Marnix