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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: OT: Meaning of the word "free"
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Adrian Knoth <adi@drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> writes:

> Yeah, I knew that. First I was a little bit confused like "Who they
> believe they are? Everyone calls it byte?"

"Octet" is common even in English stadardese.  POSIX uses it, for
example.