Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
From: Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 14:00:34 EST
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Randolph Bentson wrote:
> I'm afraid I have to disagree with you. Not enough people
> know that KB stands for 1000B. I know through experience that
> KB is often used for 1024B. The introduction of KiB makes it
> clear that 1024B is intended.
Given the confusion its raised in this thread already, this strikes
me as a particularly bad change. Some of those definitions in
Configure.help have been there for the better part of 10 years
now, and I don't recall anyone in the past few years needing to
ask for clarification.
Is this really that important ?
Dave.
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