19 Nov
2010
19 Nov
'10
1:36 p.m.
I have a quibble with this discussion. When I defined a "byte" as "a mouthful of bits" to my boss back in 1977, he nearly fired me on the spot. He did not care about PDP-10 , much less PDP-11, data constructs. By now, octet has become essentially synonymous with byte and nibble with 4-bits. Could we just refer to "n octets"? Cutler For Reference Only: On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:14, Scott Morris <swm@emanon.com> wrote:
If 8 bits is a byte, then 16 bits should be a mouthful.
When does it become a meal and, more importantly, do you want to supper (sic) size?
RIchard
James R. Cutler james.cutler@consultant.com