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From: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf @ ext 165)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <463@unisoft.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 12:37:05 EDT
Article-I.D.: unisoft.463
Posted: Wed Jul 22 12:37:05 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jul-87 06:09:23 EDT
References: <218@astra.necisa.oz> <142700010@tiger.UUCP> <2792@phri.UUCP> <857@bsu-cs.UUCP> <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: greywolf@unisoft.UUCP (The Grey Wolf @ ext 165)
Organization: UniSoft Systems; Berkeley, CA
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In article <6144@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) writes:
>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.

And people who believe that there is a nice, neat way to implement an alter-
nate solution throughout the computer industry are foolish, buttheaded and/or
not very capable of mental throughput.  [ or they own a Cray, where everything
is a double (64 bits) anyway...]

	What is the problem here?  I see nothing wrong eight bits for a
character.  Can you come up with anything better?  What's the matter?
Are escape sequences for special characters too much for you to handle?
Gimme a break.

			Disgusted that this discussion is even *happening*,

				Roan Anderson

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