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From: melohn%sluggo@Sun.COM (Bill Melohn)
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Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block"
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Date: Wed, 15-Jul-87 00:09:56 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jul 15 00:09:56 1987
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In article <23436@sun.uucp> guy%gorodish@Sun.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>    O.K., I'll byte.  (oops, pun initially unintended.)   A byte IS eight
>> bits!!!
>
>Don't say that within earshot of any PDP-10 aficionados....

Yes, you've clearly bit off more than you can chew. An Octet (as described
in the TCP/IP RFCs) IS 8 bits; bytes are arbitrary both in size and order
within the large variety of machine architectures.