4 Jan
2002
4 Jan
'02
9:39 a.m.
On Jan 4, 10:39, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Besides the 1000 x 1024 method, the moniker
"1.44Mb" has an additional
marketing advantage - it's a simple multiple of 720K (which is really
a 1Mb raw floppy, formatted to 737,280 bytes under DOS, or 1024 x 720).
It's easier to conceptualize that a "1.44Mb" floppy holds twice as much
as a "720K" floppy. If you called it a "1.47Mb" floppy, I think
there
would be even more confused newbies than there are now.
My nitpick is that it's "MB" (megabytes) not "Mb" (megabits). And
*of
course* it's 1.40625MB, or 1.4MB for short :-)
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York