A Technical History of Apple's Operating Systems

[Antonio Carlini]

Jules Richardson wrote:

> [1] Anyone know who it was, anyway? I first saw it in the hard disk
> industry somewhere around 1997 or so, purely as a marketing tool to
> make one manufacturer's drives look bigger than their competitors.

My recollection is that that was well after the formatted vs
unformatted capacity stuff :-)

At least that seems to have died a death.

Antonio