QUESTION POSED ON: 04 May 2004
Does any one keep track of non-standard terminology? In the group that I worked with developing a Linux (Actually Non Proprietary UNIX Emulator NPUE (pronounced New-pooie)) 64, 128 and 256 bit compilers we used the terms:
Two bits or a crumb Dibble
Three bits Tribble
Four bits Nibble
Five bits Pribble
Six bits Skibble
The theme was the first letter of double, triple (quad was skipped) pent and sex. No one ever agreed on seven bits. It hardly mattered as the tandem word simulator running on the 16 bit machine behaved strangely for the 64 bit simulation and failed utterly for the 128 bit and up simulations and you can?t get volunteers to write code for something that can?t be at least tested. If no repository or translation for such things exists I?m thinking of creating one. Some of the old tech documentation can be harder to figure out than ancient Egyptian.
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