On December 27, 2001 12:34 am, Dominik Mierzejewski wrote:
> Although I thought there was an agreement that decimal kilobyte is kB,
> and binary kilobyte is KiB, decimal megabyte is MB, binary megabyte is MB
> and so on, wasn't there?
Not in my book. As far as I'm concerned, somebody who tells me that one KB
of memory or disk is 1,000 bytes is a liar. When a disk manufacturer chooses
to interpret KB in such a way as to make their disk seem bigger, I just say
to myself "ok, they lied, that's what they do, they're in business and they
don't care". Now could we just ignore the self-serving doublespeak
promulgated by greedy manufacturers, and continue using KB please?
Kilo, as in memory -> 1024
Kilo, as in distance or weight -> 1,000
Difficult?
/me wonders when the kibblebytes thread is going to end
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