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Re:FTP is 50 years old by outside1234 on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:20PM (#26835827)
A nibble is half a byte or 4 bits.
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Re:FTP is 50 years old by teddyh on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:47PM (#26836208)
That’s “nybble”: http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/N/nybble.html
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Re:FTP is 50 years old by cygx on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:26PM (#26836691)
Quote:

    > nybble: /nib´l/, nibble, n.
                        ^---- see that word over here?
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Re:FTP is 50 years old by jbverschoor on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:17PM (#26836601)
I hereby declare 256bytes a whopper, and 512bytes a doublewhopper
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Re:FTP is 50 years old by danans on Friday April 16, 2021 @07:03PM (#26839990)
1024 bytes is a vomit, 4096 is a heart-attack.
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Re:FTP is 50 years old by jbverschoor on Friday April 16, 2021 @04:18PM (#26838597)
SHA-whopper
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Re:FTP is 50 years old by IncRnd on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:44PM (#26836927)
Nibble and nybble are alternate spellings.
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