Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!gatech!hao!ames!amdcad!amd!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits) Message-ID: <798@cpocd2.UUCP> Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 13:42:44 EDT Article-I.D.: cpocd2.798 Posted: Wed Jul 22 13:42:44 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 04:11:26 EDT References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <6705@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <524@ollie.UUCP> Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ Lines: 12 In article <524@ollie.UUCP> hansen@mips.UUCP (Craig Hansen) writes: >Has anyone seen a good name used for three 8-bit bytes? I've been using >"tri-byte", but could see it being shortened to "trite" or "tryte." Obviously, the correct term is "trilobyte". :-) Especially if we're discussing the lower 3 bytes of a 4 byte word. -- Howard A. Landman ...!{oliveb,...}!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard howard%cpocd2%sc.intel.com@RELAY.CS.NET "..., precisely the opposite of what we now know to be true!"