saving octet-stream png file

[Wildman]

On Mon, 22 Aug 2016 13:21:43 -0400, Larry Martell wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 4:51 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro
> <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 6:03:53 AM UTC+12, Terry Reedy wrote:
>>>
>>> An 'octet' is a byte of 8 bits.
>>
>> Is there any other size of byte?
> 
> Many, many years ago, probably c. 1982 my Dad came into my house and
> saw a Byte Magazine laying on the coffee table. He asked "What is a
> byte?" I replied "Half a word." He then asked "What is the other half
> of the word?" I said "That is also a byte." He thought for a moment,
> then said "So the full word is 'byte byte'?"

LOL!  Did you explain to him that a full word could also be
'nibble nibble nibble nibble' or 'bit bit bit bit bit bit
bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit bit'?

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