On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:55 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > since time immemorial, 1 megabyte always contained 1024 kilobytes, > and 1 gigabyte always contained 1024 megabytes. > > Thankfully, 1 kilobyte is still 1024 bytes, in disk-speak. 'fraid not... What MB has really meant has been ambiguous for donkey's years, if not right from the beginning. Likewise, with kB. That's why we have MiB *and* KiB (amongst others) to remove the ambiguity, they both have absolute meanings not open to misinterpretation. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
