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From: rjd@tiger.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block"
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Date: Mon, 13-Jul-87 10:32:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 13 10:32:00 1987
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>>To this day I am not sure why we cannot use either bytes, Kbytes, Mbytes, etc.
>>instead of blocks.
> 
> How big is a "byte"?  (No, it's not necessarily 8 bits!)
> How about sizing things in terms of number of bits, which is a
> universal measure.

   O.K., I'll byte.  (oops, pun initially unintended.)   A byte IS eight bits!!!
Maybe you are thinking of a word??  And a nibble is four bits, and a gulp is
sixteen bits (or was this a mouthful?), etc....

Randy