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From: lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <1496@ncc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 19:17:53 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 19:17:53 1987
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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."

24 bits is a tribble (not to be confused with a tribbit, which is 3 bits).

--lyndon

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