720RPM 3.5" FDDs?

Patrick Finnegan pat at computer-refuge.org
Mon Feb 2 07:25:16 CST 2009


On Sunday 01 February 2009, der Mouse wrote:
> 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.

Pat
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