Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: standard size names
Message-ID: <9766@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 88 13:58:17 GMT
References: <UW=1uvy00XoH4DZktq@andrew.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <UW=1uvy00XoH4DZktq@andrew.cmu.edu> jk3k+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joe Keane) writes:
| We all know a `nibble' is 4 bits, and a `byte' is 8.  But what are 16, 32 and 
| 64 bits?  In C terminology you've got `short', `long' and `long long' (yes i 

Actually you forgot going toward zero and names. I have heard the term
'tayste' used for half a nybble, and everyone agrees that a bit is a
bit.

Personally I think half a nybble should be a 'quarter'. Everyone knows
that two bits is a quarter (Sorry, couldn't resist).
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