2 Feb
2009
2 Feb
'09
3:30 p.m.
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.