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In article <9815@bu-cs.BU.EDU> bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:

>1024 should be called a Kbit, there's just no choice, sorry, not funny.

The plural of kbit is of course kibitz, as in "How much netnews came
in last night?"  "Lots of kibitz."   :-)

Snoopy
tektronix!doghouse.gwd!snoopy
snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com

"And it's a middle-endian machine with trinary logic."
"They would do that!"