A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Doc Shipley]

Patrick Finnegan wrote:
> 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?

   300MB.  Western Digital et al are just wrong.  :)

   As far as I'm concerned, any unit of measurement ending in "byte" is 
in powers of 2 anyhow.


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