On Thursday, 21 July 2005, at 15:50:20 (+0200), Martin Geisler wrote: > Well, reading through the Usage Notes section on Wikipedia is > interesting. We're dealing with bytes in all six cases, but there are > differences: > > * A MB of RAM is 1024 * 1024 bytes.
Agreed. > * A MB on a harddisk is 1000 * 1000 bytes if you're the > manufacturer, but 1024 * 1024 if youre the OS, Marketing ploys by manufacturers should not be allowed to redefine well-established nomenclature. > * A MB on a floppy disk is 1000 * 1024 bytes, A 1440 floppy is correctly referred to as 1.4MB, not 1.44MB. Again...bad manufacturer. No cookie. > * A MB on a CD is 1024 * 1024 bytes. Yup. > * A MB on a DVD is 1000 * 1000 bytes. Same deal as a hard drive. It's a ploy. Just remember a standard DVD holds just under 4.5 GB. > * A MB/s on a bus means 1000 * 1000 bytes/s. Ploy. > You must admit that this context sensitive unit 'MB' is everything > but clear with no less than three different interpretations. The only one of these that isn't well-defined and well-known is the bus speed example. If we allow learning curve to dictate our modus operandi, why aren't we all using MacOS and an iMac? Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Unix is like a Vorlon: It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers, and has a lot of things going on in the background." -- Jeff Dubrule ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
