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Postings from February 2000
On Wed, Feb 09, 2000 at 01:24:59PM -0700, tchrist@chthon.perl.com wrote:
> >I prefer octets, as that is what all the RFC's seem to call them.
>
> Si on a envie de parler non-anglais, alors bien, mais pour
> les autres, you have to admit that bytes is more what people
> are used to pensing about.
My sense is that, "octet" is a snobbish jargonesque word for "byte."
With respect to "ascii," does everyone know that ascii characters are
always bytes? Certainly "bytes" are always bytes, so "bytes" would seem
hard to misinterpret.
$0.02
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