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From: vanam@pttesac.UUCP (Marnix van Ammers)
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Subject: Re: How do you say "byte" in French?
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Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 14:14:50 EST
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According to Websters:

byte: a group of adjacent binary digits often shorter than a
      word that a computer processes as a unit.


So it doesn't have to be 8 bits.
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