On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Chris Lingard wrote: >> LOL >> >> We use different terms >> >> To me a Mb is one million bytes >> And a MB is one million bits > > Oh, wow, that's completely the opposite of what I've always used/seen. Where > does this come frome? >
it's not standard usage but it is very english-language centric. B is > b and 8 is > 1, so typical usage is B is Bytes, and b is bits. I've never seen B=bits and b = bytes, but, that said, lots of people (like me) are not careful about MB vs. mb. ron -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
