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From: thomson@uthub.toronto.edu (Brian Thomson)
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Subject: Re: How do you say "byte" in French?
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Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 12:07:17 EST
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Original-Subject: Re: dhrystones MT2025

According to the technical terminology book sitting on my officemate's
desk, titled "Terminologie de l'informatique" and published by the Office
de la langue francaise du Quebec, the correct translation for 'a byte'
is 'un multiplet', but 'a megabyte' is indeed 'un megaoctet'.
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.
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		    Brian Thomson,	    CSRI Univ. of Toronto
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