On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
>
> I have never heard of "kibibytes" before. Since there's approximately 50 years
> of history behind the use of kilobyte to mean 1024, I don't think the adoption
> is going to change very soon.
Unfortunately I have. I got a rude letter from someone complaining about it.
Apparently the IEEE, no less, have voted to adopt that usage. More fools
them: as Jeremy says, kilo has been 1024 for a long time. Except among disk
manufacturers trying to make their disks look bigger, of course. But I am
not a disk manufacturer.
(Actually, the history is not quite as simple as I made out. You know the
standard 1.44MB floppy disk? How many bytes do you think it is? Answer in
sig.)
--
Stephen Turner http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/
Statistical Laboratory, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB, England
Quiz answer: 1.44 * 1024 * 1000. Sad but true. But then it's not
really 'floppy' either. :)
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