Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!rutgers!husc6!ut-sally!ut-ngp!kjm From: kjm@ut-ngp.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: How do you say "byte" in French? Message-ID: <4413@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 06:32:05 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.4413 Posted: Thu Dec 11 06:32:05 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Dec-86 11:02:56 EST References: <261@esunix.UUCP> Reply-To: kjm@ngp.UUCP Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 15 [] >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" [Charter?] Member, Heathen and Atheist SCUM Alliance, "Heathen" division ...!{ihnp4,allegra,seismo!ut-sally}!ut-ngp!kjm [Usenet, when working] kjm@ngp.{ARPA, UTEXAS.EDU, CC.UTEXAS.EDU} [Old, New, and Very New Internet]