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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <1625@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jul-87 16:45:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1625
Posted: Tue Jul 21 16:45:54 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 23-Jul-87 04:53:29 EDT
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: 24 bits is a ... (see punch line!)
Summary: It's a joke, Son.  A joke, I say!

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."

It would give me a warm, fuzzy feeling forever after, if a three byte block
of bits were to be know henceforth as a "tribble".     ;-)

Kent, the man from xanth.