2 Feb
2009
2 Feb
'09
9:05 p.m.
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Patrick Finnegan wrote:
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.
and, of course, disk makers.
the 1.4M drive is usually run at 300 RPM (exception: NEC, etc.) at
500 K bits per second. That 500Kbps is 500,000 bits per second.