slartibartfast wrote: > Maybe now but historically a Megabyte was 1024 Kilobytes and a Kilobyte > was 1024 bytes.
I thought a computer megabyte (1024x1024) used to be written as MB and a kilobyte 1024 as KB to distinguish from SI kilo=1,000 but I think people became careless with notation as PCs were used by "ordinary" people (and maybe consumer protection demanded "correct" numbering) . Of course historically a byte were just the unit of manipulation and in 1960s-70s could be anything from 6 bits to 9 bits and computer words were 12bits to 36bits wide. Disks for PDP-10 such as an RP06 had its capacity measured in Megawords when a word was 36 bits wide. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=116079 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
