720RPM 3.5" FDDs?
der Mouse
mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Mon Feb 2 09:30:41 CST 2009
>> Well, except for disk makers. As far as I can tell, the only people
>> in the computer world that use the SI meanings for those prefixes
>> for bytes are disk makers' marketing departments, [...]
> As someone else has noted, networking people have (as far as I can
> tell) always taken Mbps and Kbps to mean 10^6 and 10^3, respectively,
> bits per second.
Ooo, that's true, datacomm speeds use the decimal versions. My bad.
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