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Alumnus' Hackerspeak

> A definition first - in old-timers parlance, a "nibble" is half an octet,
> i.e. a chunk of 4 bits. 

Don't forget dynner's (4 bytes), playtes (2 bytes) and taystes (2 bits). ;-)

Rob

[Cool! keep hacking, Rob]


\ Franco Callari