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In article <HARKCOM.90Nov21080149@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp>
harkcom@potato.pa.Yokogawa.Co.jp (Alton Harkcom) writes: 
>   The word octet is used to refer to 8 bits (8 = oct). It is not only
>used in France though. I've read a lot of documents that deal with
>portability of software that uses octet in this way to avoid confusion.

I remember using a small business computer made by GE in the late '60's
(GE 100? All I can remember is that the operating system, such as it
was, was called Pilot) whose manual spoke of octets, rather than bytes.
(Yes, I know that HN Bull is the [indirect] successor to GE, and that HN
Bull is French-owned, but GE in the 1960's was true-blue American.) 
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