Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!yale!lisper
From: lisper@yale.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: standard size names
Message-ID: <24739@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 88 17:16:49 GMT
References: <UW=1uvy00XoH4DZktq@andrew.cmu.edu> <9766@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <17290@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2246@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: lisper@yale-celray.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT
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In article <2246@saturn.ucsc.edu> haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (Jim Haynes) writes:
>Of course in Olivetti machines, the Italians being noted for their musical
>abilities, four bits is a quartet and eight bits is an octet.

This has actually been proposed in Swedish too. It is certainly more precise
than talking about bytes and words which means different things on different
machines.

Bjorn Lisper