17 Mar
1999
17 Mar
'99
9:16 a.m.
At 11:34 PM 3/16/99 -0800, Chuck McManis wrote:
COMING TO TERMS WITH BYTES
Computer terminology is becoming more precise: the International
Electrotechnical Commission, which creates standards for electronic
technologies, is adopting new prefixes to describe data values. The new
term "kibibyte" will more accurately describe the number of bytes in a
kilobyte -- rather than being 1,000, as could be inferred by the prefix
"kilo," a kilobyte actually has 1,024 (2 to the 10th power) bytes.
Hmm, I get it - the "lo" in "kilobyte == 1,000" meant it was a bit
low,
and the "bi" means it's binary.
- John