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 <s...@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.cut...@consultant.com