Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!bloom-beacon!think!ames!ptsfa!ihnp4!inuxc!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ccvaxa!aglew From: aglew@ccvaxa.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: b Message-ID: <28200039@ccvaxa> Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 11:34:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ccvaxa.28200039 Posted: Sat Jul 18 11:34:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 20:52:31 EDT References: <6705@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> Lines: 21 Nf-ID: #R:steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP:6705:ccvaxa:28200039:000:496 Nf-From: ccvaxa.UUCP!aglew Jul 18 10:34:00 1987 >Let me clarify this: > 8 bits is a byte > 4 bits is a nybble > 2 bits is a tayste (actually 2 bits is a quarter) > >36 bit machines usually support at least 6 and 9 bit bytes in hardware, Pushing my private bandwagon: 1 bit singlet 2 bits doublet tayste quarter 3 bits triplet octal-digit 4 bits quadlet nybble 6 bits sexlet 8 bits octlet octet byte 9 bits nonlet 16 bits hexlet (actually deca-hexlet, but called hexlet for the same reasons base 16 is hex) 32 bits triclet (actually...)