2 Feb
2009
2 Feb
'09
1:25 p.m.
On Sunday 01 February 2009, der Mouse wrote:
Well, except for disk makers. As far as I can tell,
the only people
in the computer world that use the SI meanings for those prefixes for
bytes are disk makers' marketing departments,
As someone else has noted, networking people have (as far as I can tell)
always taken Mbps and Kbps to mean 10^6 and 10^3, respectively, bits
per second.
Pat
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