bpa wrote: > 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.To confuse things even more 1.44MB Floppy discs > were not 1.44 megabytes or 1.44 mebibytes but 1440 kebibytes [emoji2]
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