Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!bloom-beacon!bu-cs!bzs From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits) Message-ID: <9815@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Sun, 19-Jul-87 19:40:29 EDT Article-I.D.: bu-cs.9815 Posted: Sun Jul 19 19:40:29 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Jul-87 00:35:52 EDT References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <207@vianet.UUCP> <2737@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Organization: Boston U. Comp. Sci. Lines: 10 Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:3320 comp.arch:1634 In-reply-to: dgk@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com's message of 17 Jul 87 17:48:13 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Mon Mar 23 1987 on bu-cs (berkeley-unix) Some more suggestions: In honor of the page size of a Vax: 512 bits == nanopage 1024 should be called a Kbit, there's just no choice, sorry, not funny. -Barry Shein, Boston University