Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 09:38:32 -0400 From: Bill Moran <wmoran@iowna.com> To: John Summerfield <summer@os2.ami.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Large Hard Drive Trouble Message-ID: <3B14F7D8.9EBAF909@iowna.com> References: <200105300602.f4U62or31180@possum.os2.ami.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
John Summerfield wrote: > Ohm I don't know about that. How long ago did the French decide > Kilometre means 1000 metres? Kilometer does mean 1000 meters, and kilobyte means 1024 bytes. http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?prefix > The suffixes K, M, G for x1000, x1000000 and x1000000000 predate the DP > industry by a while. And the word "port" predates it even more, yet "the DP industry" has redefined it for special usage. There are many more examples of this, many outside "the DP industry". Language changes over time. > I've been in the DP industry for longer than Unix has existed, and on > reflection, I think we got it wrong. Possibly. But regardless, it's still used 2 different ways, which frequently causes confusion, and that was my original point. Regardless of which base is "correct", the HDD manufacturers _know_ that using base 2 for byte sizes is generally accepted practice in the industry, and they intentionally use base 10 because it _looks_ bigger, NOT because they are trying to be on some side of some old argument. -- If a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, then what can I get for two hands in the bush? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3B14F7D8.9EBAF909>