| From: | Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: What's a megapulse? |
| Date: | Thu, 28 May 1998 09:11:45 +1000 |
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.
They're joke terms from the Hacker's Jargon File.
(oh, and by using longword, you're displaying your computer tendencies, you
know. But it's better than dword)
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.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
