1 Feb
2009
1 Feb
'09
11:53 p.m.
alright, who the hell is the moron that changed
kilobyte to kibibyte and megabyte to mebibyte?
i mean, come on people, we had a good system for like 2 decades, leave it alone!
oh, IEC, should have known.... ugh.
Dan.
Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:29:38 -0800
From: cisin at xenosoft.com
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: 720RPM 3.5" FDDs?
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009, Dan Gahlinger wrote:
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actually it's not an even million.
a megabyte is 1024*1024 bytes
(1024 K), a mb is a million bytes, but an MB is 1,048,576 bytes
1K = 1024 bytes, not 1000 bytes.
I agree wholeheartedly with Dan about a megabyte (MB) being 2^20 bytes
(1024 * 1024, 1024K, 1048576).
But, we have to be careful about the abbreviations.
Some would insist that "mb" would have to be "milli-bit"!
Those who "have to" have 1000 * 1000 as their unit, would like us to us
"Mebi-Byte" as the name for 1048576.
And of course, we need a name for the Unscrupulous IBM Marketing unit.
("UIMU"?)
I do not accept that there is ANY possible rationale that would justify
1000 * 1024 as being a valid unit of measure. Particularly when the same
UNSCRUPULOUS MARKETING units use 1024 * 1024 for RAM.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com