22 Jan
1999
22 Jan
'99
12:12 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:
Can you find a reference (other than an advert :-))
that defines it any
other way?
Anyway, I might accept that 1Mbyte = 10^6 bytes, particularly if you
happen to have a decimal or BCD machine :-) (this is classiccmp). But I
don't see any justification for making it 1024000 bytes. And that's the
only way you can have '1.44Mbytes' on a HD 3.5" disk
And we get the 10^6 error as well of course with the Atari STs, models
520 and 1040.
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Ward Griffiths
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