25 Nov
2008
25 Nov
'08
4:04 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Actually, doesn't mb imply "millibit", and mB is "millibyte", with
Mb as
"megabit" and MB as "megabyte"?
Peace... Sridhar
Even computer
companies - people that should know better, make
mistakes when talking about floppy disks. Last week I was in a Staples
store (American office supply store chain), and saw a Memorex 3 1/2" USB
floppy drive, the package stating clearly that it supported "1.44mb
double sided and 720k single sided diskettes". >
Well, calling it mb (millibyte) is clearly wrong. And the value of
1.44Mbytes assumes you take 1Mbyte as 1000*1024 bytes, which is downright
crazy.