Re: Configure.help editorial policy

From: Jeff Mcadams (jeffm@iglou.com)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 18:03:55 EST


Also sprach Oliver Xymoron
>Not true. Bandwidth is measured in metric.

If by this you mean that in networking, a megabit per second is equal to
1000^2, or a gigabit per second is 1000^3, then my response consists of:

Uhm, no.

If your response (I haven't followed this whole thread, so I'm not up on
all of the discussion here) is concerning the capitalization and such
used for it, then I really don't care which it is as the purpose is to
communicate, and strict adherence to capitalization just isn't that
important to communication. *shrug*

>Basically anything but RAM is measured in metric. RAM is the exception
>because of its intimate relation to bus width and that's an obvious
>anachronism. There's no reason anyone but a systems programmer should
>give a damn about powers of two.

This makes me think you're concerned about powers of 2 versus powers of
10. In which case, reference my response above.

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