[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> Expanding on my message.
>>
>> My point is that there are two definitions of Kilobytes.  In one a
>> Kilobyte=1000bytes, in the other a Kilobyte=1054bytes and this dichotomy
>> is used to cheat people.
>>     
>
> REPLY
> Sorry to disagree but since the late sixties when I first learned computer
> terminology it was understood that one kilobyte of memory was in fact 1024
> bytes. It was the closest thing to 1000 consistent with a number divisible
>   
I took that as a typo.  Norm knows better.

Jim.
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