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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 14:13:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6144
Posted: Tue Jul 21 14:13:31 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jul-87 04:18:02 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <857@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) )
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
>A byte is therefore exactly 8 bits.  No more and no less.  Opinions to
>the contrary belong in the 1960s.  Let them lie there and die there.

And people who believe that 8 bits is sufficiently to encode a
character are either naive or stupid.