On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
IF you had 1,000,000 bytes per "Megabyte"
(like Sam), then
1474560/1000000 => 1.474560 Megabytes, ABOUT 1.47, NOT 1.44!
AND, the last time you bought a "Megabyte of memory", you got 1.048576 Meg!
[Sam: what books WOULD you consider to be "authoritative"? Mmmmm PANCAKES!]
They sure are yummy!!!
I see your point now. Can I take my foot out of my mouth?
OB_10-year: for 20 years we struggled with companies
that claimed that
THEIR computer was better than the competition, because THEIRs had 65.5K
of RAM. Now that we've finally won the battle of how many bytes in a
"Kilobyte", we are LOSING the battle of how many bytes are in a
"Megabyte".
Well by golly we must reclaim the megabyte by boycotting companies that
abuse it like that horrid IBM!!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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