Introducing draft-denog-v6ops-addresspartnaming

Fri Nov 19 18:36:42 UTC 2010

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 at 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 at consultant.com