Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
John Summerfield wrote:
be fair, everywhere else but computing, K means 10^3, M 10^6 etc. It's
early computer types that sought to redefine it.
And in 2000, the International Electrotechnical Commission redefined it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
On reading that, it seems to me that IEC didn't redefine anything, they
sought to correct the earlier mistake and introduce alternative terminology.
btw I suspect Seymour Cray is more famous outside IBM circles than Gene
Amdahl. Gene was IBM's equivalent, bot were lead developers (Gene the
S/360, Seymour the 7600 etc), both were dissatisfied and left to
establish their own companies, and both companies had significant
effects in computing.
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Cheers
John
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