A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Antonio Carlini]

Doc Shipley wrote:
> Allison wrote:
> 
>> Whats a millibyte? Saw that once!
> 
>    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.
> 
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
> 
>    Can you tell I'm not thrilled?

The SI prefixes (k) kilo and (M) mega have always meant 10**3 and 10**6.
The computer industry decided that K should mean 1024 (which is
fine if somewhat confusing) but trying to bend mega into something
that it should never have been was just lazy ...

Antonio