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From: marc@zeus.cs.ucla.edu (Marc Tremblay)
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Subject: Re: How do you say "byte" in French?
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Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 12:20:47 EST
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In article <2523@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>Is "octet" the proper French translation of of the English "byte"?  

In French "octet" means a 8-bit byte. Actually it comes from
the latin "word" octo which means that it is related to eight.
(I took latin a long time ago!)
An "octet" of 9 bits should not be correct in this sense, but 
remember that the three musketeers were actually four...