A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Bryan Pope]

And thusly were the wise words spake by Fred Cisin
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> > In a way it makes sense ... The general public understands "thousand"
> > better than "k", so giving them the number of bytes in thousands will
> > give them a better idea of the actual number than a true "k" value
> > would - we computer geeks just think differently than everyone else
> > I find myself counting non-computer related things in hex all the time
> >  (If you are doing it out loud, people nearby look at you strangely
> >   and move slightly further away)
> 
> and people get especially weirded out when you count on your fingers in
> binary (up to 1023).  Just reaching the number 4 upsets them.
> 

That could take awhile.. :)  Now do you do it by saying the single 
numbers or the decimal representaion of the number?

Cheers,

Bryan