A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 11:58, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> 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.  :-(

Yeah, who'd ever want simple clarity?  It's SOO much more fun to have no 
idea whether someone means 300,000,000 or 314,572,800 when they 
say "300MB".

Pat
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