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From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Size of SysV "block" (really: byte != 8 bits)
Message-ID: <798@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-Jul-87 13:42:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: cpocd2.798
Posted: Wed Jul 22 13:42:44 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."

Obviously, the correct term is "trilobyte". :-)  Especially if we're
discussing the lower 3 bytes of a 4 byte word.

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