On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 13:02, Steven Cole wrote:
> I see that in the very latest Configure.help version, 2.76, available at
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Eric has decided to follow the
> following standard: IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, Letter symbols
> to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and
> electronics. and has changed all the abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to
> KiB, Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, etc.
Personally? This is hideous, confusing, and unneeded.
GiB in my mind is a gigabit, anyhow.
Robert Love
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