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From: Colin Fine <C.J.Fine@BRADFORD.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: TECH: Bytes and bits
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Nick says:
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What I've just described, though, isn't really a byte; more like a word.
What of a byte? Well the Esperantists have accepted 'bajto', but alongside
it, as a kind of protest, they also have 'bitoko': eight-bit. Given my
distaste for PA-lujvo misused, could we admit bivjetka'u as a properly
used lujvo (or at least, an obvious abbreviation of jetka'ubivmoi)?
>+++++++++++
In communications contexts (and particularly in the ISO Reference Model for
data comms) the word 'octet' is preferred to 'byte'.

Just thought you'd like to know ....


        Colin