A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[der Mouse]

> 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,

Not *always*.  For example, 10Mbit Ethernet is 10000000 bits/sec, not
10485760 bits/sec.  9600 baud is 9.6 kilobaud, not 9.375 kilobaud.

But communications speeds are the only computer context I can think of
where the decimal meanings are standard (aside of course from storage
makers trying to make their storage sound bigger than it is).

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