A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Jules Richardson]

Antonio Carlini wrote:
> 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) 

It's not confusing - or at least it never used to be. In a computing context K 
was always a power of 2 because in that environment that's what's more 
convenient, and in any other context it meant a power of 10. The only 
confusion arose when some total muppet [1] decided that *also* using powers of 
ten in a computer context was a brilliant idea.

[1] Anyone know who it was, anyway? I first saw it in the hard disk industry 
somewhere around 1997 or so, purely as a marketing tool to make one 
manufacturer's drives look bigger than their competitors.

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