A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 09:51 am, Doc Shipley wrote:
>    We now have mebibytes, kibibytes, and other associated crap instead
> of proper terminology.  If you read much open-source literature or docs,
> that spec is becoming disturbingly common.

Euw.

> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
>    Can you tell I'm not thrilled?

I don't like those much either.  :-(

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