From:	"Ojaste,James [NCR]" <James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA>
Subject:	Re: What's a megapulse?
Date:	Wed, 27 May 1998 10:43:41 -0400

Spike wrote:
>And verily, did Robert Watkins hastily scribble thusly...
>|It is stated repeatedly throughout the sourcebooks that a megapulse is a
>|measurement term that has no relation whatsoever to bits, bytes, nybbles,
>|dynners, plytes, or dysserts (a nybble is 4 bits, a plyte is 2 bytes, a
>|dynner is 4 bytes, and a dyssert is a checksum bit on the end of a byte).
>
>First time I've heard of them.

Ditto.

>I suppose it had to happen eventually though, what with Bytes and Nybbles
>though....
>
>I've always gone by the terms...
>Byte
>Word : 2 Bytes
>Longword: 4 Bytes.

Hmm. I've always used Bit, Nibble, Byte, Short, Integer/Word (2 or 4
bytes, depending), Long/Double Word. Then Float and Double, of course.

Why plyte, dynner and dyssert? Where have they ever been used?

James Ojaste