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Re:The Dropbox Comp by hartem_ on Monday February 26, 2018 @12:41PM (#16467190)
GigaOctet and TeraOctet. In French-speaking countries that’s a quite common nomenclature.
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Re:The Dropbox Comp by catwell on Monday February 26, 2018 @01:40PM (#16467760)
Yes, an octet is basically a byte (B) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octet_(computing)). Note that it's less easy to confuse it with bit this way...
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