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From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: standard size names
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Date: 9 Mar 88 19:12:00 GMT
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Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew    Mar  9 13:12:00 1988


..> quartet, octet...

One of my pet peeves:

1 bit, singlet, 1b
2 bits, doublet, 2b
3 bits, triplet, 3b
4 bits, quadlet/quartet, (nibble), 4b
8 bits, octlet/octet, (byte), 8b, 1B
16 bits, hexlet/hextet, (word/halfword/whatever...), 16b, 2B
32 bits, triclet, (word/doubleword/whatever), 32b, 4B
64 bits, sexlet, (word,doubleword,longword,quadword), 64b, 8B

Discourage the terms in parentheses.



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