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From: chuck@amdahl.UUCP (Charles Simmons)
Newsgroups: comp.std.internat
Subject: Re: How do you say "byte" in French?
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Date: Tue, 9-Dec-86 00:24:52 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  9 00:24:52 1986
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In article <348@uthub.toronto.edu> thomson@uthub.toronto.edu writes:

> It seems to me that English is the sloppy one; I have never heard 'megabyte'
> used to mean anything other than mega-octet, though 'byte' can certainly
> have different lengths.
> -- 
> 		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
> 		    {linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,floyd,utzoo}!utcsri!uthub!thomson

I take it you've never worked on a Honeywell Computer.  Some honeywell's
use 9-bit bytes, and the amount of main memory (core) is measured in
megabytes.

chuck@amdahl