A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Bryan Pope]

And thusly were the wise words spake by 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".
>

Yes but 300MB is usually attached to something and then you know 
what it means...  "Context" :)

Cheers,

Bryan