A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:27, Bryan Pope wrote:
> 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" :)

A "300MB" file takes up how much space in memory, and how much space on 
disk?

Pat
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