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Subject:What do you call this? Side Track From:Richard Dimock <red -at- ELSEGUNDOCA -dot- ATTGIS -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 20 Jul 1995 07:49:41 PDT
Just a side track on this bit definition.
We are all familiar with bit and byte. There are other terms
we use in the supercomputer biz.
1 bit: Bit
2 bits: Dibit, for when instructions used this
granularity
4 bits: Nibble, often used for wider granularity,
8 bits: Byte
64 bits: Lunch, for our 64-bit word.
We didn't deal heavily in the 16-, 24- and 32-bit chunks.
Perhaps some of you have names for them?
Dick Dimock
AT&T Global Information Solutions
El Segundo, CA **EAT CROW, Episode 6**
Then, next to the feathered carcass on
the ground, the farmer ordered the
unsuspecting American Patriot to
pick up the dead crow. Thinking this
farmer was on an anti-littering, recycling
campaign, the soldier did so, and began to
stuff the carcass into his pack.
