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Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler () consultant com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:36:42 -0500
I have a quibble with this discussion. When I defined a "byte" as "a mouthful of bits" to my boss back in 1977, he nearly fired me on the spot. He did not care about PDP-10 , much less PDP-11, data constructs. By now, octet has become essentially synonymous with byte and nibble with 4-bits. Could we just refer to "n octets"? Cutler For Reference Only: On Nov 19, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 14:14, Scott Morris <swm () emanon com> wrote:If 8 bits is a byte, then 16 bits should be a mouthful.When does it become a meal and, more importantly, do you want to supper (sic) size? RIchard
James R. Cutler james.cutler () consultant com
Current thread:
- RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming, (continued)
- RE: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming George Bonser (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming David Israel (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Owen DeLong (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Owen DeLong (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Joel Jaeggli (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming William Pitcock (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Cutler James R (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Scott Morris (Nov 22)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Frank Habicht (Nov 19)
- Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming Richard Hartmann (Nov 19)