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Article #12774Re: How do you say "byte" in French?
From: kjm
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1986 11:32
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1986 11:32
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>In my (admittedly) brief experiences with Cyber 170's and French people,
>octet seems to be a generic term that can mean anywhere between 6 and
>9 bits. The terms seems interchangable when refering to Vax bytes or
>Cyber bytes (6 bits). [John Byer {decvax!decwrl!esunix!byer}]
On Cyber 170's, "byte" usually refers to the unit of memory used by
peripheral processors: 12 bits. Bytes contain 2 display-code characters.
--
Kenneth J. Montgomery "Shredder-of-hapless-smurfs"
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