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From: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Appeal for meaning of an acronym -- help!
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Date: 30 Oct 88 22:16:56 GMT
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Reply-To: kjell@saturn.ucsc.edu (Kjell Post)
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>Seems to me that BIT stands for Binary Digit. At least, that is what
>it means when in reference to a "16 bit integer".
>

Yes, but this is a newsletter/magazine and as an earlier
posting said, BIT reads backwards as "Behandling Informations Tidskrift",
swedish for Information Processing Newsletter.

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