MiB is the abbreviation for Mebibyte and was created to replace the
term Megabyte.

Read more about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibyte

HTH

On Apr 17, 1:42 pm, CSharpner <[email protected]> wrote:
> This may sound like a stupid question, but what the heck does "MiB"
> stand for in the "Create new Android Virtual Device" dialog in
> Eclipse?  It -seems- like it means "megabyte", but in my 29 years of
> programming, not once have I ever seen "MiB" as an acronym for
> megabyte.  It's aways been MB and sometimes "Meg" and sometimes
> incorrectly as "Mb" or "mb", but never "MiB".  That's why I'm asking,
> and since I'm a newb to Android (not newb to programming) I'm thinking
> maybe this is something Android specific and means something else
> entirely.
>
> Thanks.

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