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From: devine@cookie.dec.com (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: standard size names
Message-ID: <8803031840.AA16808@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 3 Mar 88 18:40:54 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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> We all know a `nibble' is 4 bits, and a `byte' is 8.
> But what are 16, 32 and 64 bits?

  This is something that's come up at least once a year
since I've been reading usenet postings.

  My suggestion for 64 bits has been to honor of Seymour Cray
because he has been at the forefront of 64 bit design for
about two decades.  64 bits == a "crayte".

Bob Devine  ...!decwrl!cookie.dec.com!devine