>I think it began with Pompidou's minister of culture, Jacques (or was it Jack) Lang, IIRC. The Academy has a body which issues regular recommendations on how to translate new terms that appear. I know of ordinateur - computer, logiciel - software, octet - byte, but there's probably more. I wish some of francophones here would chime in.
I have seen "octet" used for byte, in the CCNA (Cisco networking) courses. Well, I saw it in Spanish, but I assume it was translated from English. The word "octet" is used in the curriculum mainly in the context of IP addresses. In other cases, "byte" is used.
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