[wellylug] [OT] Internet & Citylink

Bret Comstock Waldow bwaldow at woosh.co.nz
Mon Feb 28 21:44:52 NZDT 2005


On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:08, Jamie Dobbs wrote:

> I guess it shows that there are always things to learn, but to me a
> 'kilo' in computer terms will always mean 1024 and I have yet to read
> anything in documentation to suggest otherwise.

Hmm.  Consider these statements from manufacturers:

"For hard drive, GB=billion bytes" (IBM)

"For hard drives, GB means 1 billion bytes" Dell

They aren't speaking of powers of 2.
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