In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/12/2006
at 12:00 AM, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Actually on disk it's KB.
On the mainframe. In the PC world it might be KKB, KiKiB, MB, or
(bletch) KKiB), with noi designation of which is intended. Then
there's the old formatted versus unformatted question :-(
>In memory, it's KiBi.
Unless somebody still has[1], e,g., an IBM 1401/40/60, 1620,
1410/7010, 7070/72/74, 7080, RCA 301, 3301 or UNIVAC SS-80/90 going
;-)
[1] I was going to include IBM 650, but if someone has one going
I don't want to know about it.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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