On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 15:02 -0700, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > >> 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. > You are correct in that they didn't redefine anything. They're > trying to point out that kilo = kilo (10^3), and kibi = 2^10. What I > meant with redefining is, what people *think* a kilo is when it comes > to > computer terms. Wrong choice of words. > One note. Disk sizes unlike RAM sizes do not have to be powers of 2. -- ======================================================================= People don't change; they only become more so. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
