[132295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Fri Nov 19 13:36:59 2010
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=mHXnJ-wub7r4UFhBHHHYdas39DPpxuJknH3uQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:36:42 -0500
To: nanog group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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:
>=20
>> If 8 bits is a byte, then 16 bits should be a mouthful.
>=20
> When does it become a meal and, more importantly, do you want to
> supper (sic) size?
>=20
>=20
> RIchard
>=20
James R. Cutler
james.cutler@consultant.com
