22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
12:30 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, George Currie wrote:
Just on a side note, I always thought that the proper
way to state
the abbreviations were MB and GB _not_ Mb and Gb. With the
caps B meaning Byte and the little b meaning bit. So 8Mb would
be 8 MegaBits while 8MB would be 8MegaBytes, ethernet would
be 10Mbps while fast SCSI is 10MBps (slight difference).
There's a reason why I personally rarely reduce abbreviations all
the way to two characters. I usually use {K|M|G}b{y|i}t[e][s]. If
I leave it at just {K|M|G}, assume bytes.
--
Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor