20 Nov
2007
20 Nov
'07
2:16 a.m.
Ensor wrote:
Whilst I agree that "going decimal" is
easier to understand for the
average "man in the street", at the end of the day, the *ONLY* reason
that hard drive manufacturers have gone to using 1000 instead of 1024
when calculating sizes is that it artificially makes the drives seem
bigger. Or, in other words, it's pure marketing!
Except proft margin ... then meg-a-bucks is binary. :)
Point in case, I have a "200GB" Maxtor drive in this machine, which is
*actually* a 186GB drive. Both sizes are quite correct depending on your
definition of "Kilo", "Mega" etc.
Since computers operate in binary, it makes *VASTLY* more sense for
"Kilo" to be defined as 1024 than 1000 (2^10) etc.
It still is.
Most operating systems I've used tend to agree....
Other than windows ... it is 640K OS.
TTFN - Pete.