Re: "Open System" Redefined in OSI Specification

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From: Martin Farach
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 1990 19:07

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In article <GUMBY.90Nov19093839@Cygnus.COM> gumby@Cygnus.COM (David Vinayak Wallace) writes:

   In fact Sun has changed the meaning of the word TWICE.  First they
   made it mean "system which accommodates portable software."  Now it
   means "any piece of Sun software."  Sun isn't the only one guilty of
   this.  Anyone who uses "byte" and assumes it can only be 8 bits long
   is paying homage to IBM's marketing department.


Actually, the french are "paying homage" to IBM in a big way.  The
french word for byte is octet!!!

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Martin Farach						mpf@cs.umd.edu
University of Maryland
Department of Computer Science
College Park, Maryland 20742

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From: mpf@triplea.cs.umd.edu (Martin Farach)
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