text_combined: james knight wrgffuhmnet apr 16 2008 1100 pm greg ewing wrote word needed concept invent new one eg size unit rather reusing byte everyone already understands meaning 8 bits nope everyone understands octet 8 bits bytes exactly 8 bits redefinition nottoo distantpast hardware 9bit bytes common lisp also uses term byte mean arbitrary specified number bits eg httpwwwlisporghyperspecbodytyp_unsignedbytehtml see also httpdictionarydienetbyte james _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 142417 0400 python3000 sizeofsize_t sizeoflong