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From: devine@vianet.UUCP (Bob Devine)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <207@vianet.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Jul-87 15:27:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: vianet.207
Posted: Thu Jul 16 15:27:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 11:25:27 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <6705@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Organization: Western Digital, Boulder Tech Ctr
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Summary: repost of 'what do you call xx bits'
Xref: mnetor comp.unix.wizards:3279 comp.arch:1615

In article <2792@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> Maybe you are thinking of a word??  And a nibble is four bits, and a gulp is
> sixteen bits (or was this a mouthful?), etc....

In article <6705@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>   8 bits is a byte
>   4 bits is a nybble
>   2 bits is a tayste (actually 2 bits is a quarter)

  This a reposting of the results of a question I asked last year.  I had
asked what to a grouping of bits.  It all started because I originally
thought that "crayte" would be a marvelous name for a 64-bit group.

Bob Devine

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
     1 bit  == bit[?], byt[1], singlet[4]
     2 bits == quarter[0], dibit[4], doublet[4]
     4 bits == nybble[?], nibble[4], quadlet[4]
     8 bits == byte[?], octlet[4]
    16 bits == gulp[2], dysh[3], hexlet[4], playte[5], gulp[6],
	       snack[7,8], chomp[9]
    32 bits == box[2], coarse[3], triclet[4], plattyr[5], mouthful[6],
               meal[7,8], snarf[9]
    64 bits == crayte[0], meel[3], sexlet[4], feast[7,8], gobble[9]
     * bits == buffet[3]

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