On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:41:41 -0600, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>R.S. wrote: >> Bruce Hewson wrote: >> >>> Well folks, >>> >>> until M$ came along, and before KiB became a standard, I was taught >>> the convention as: >>> >>> Disk: always use decimal value, i.e. KB = 1000 Bytes. >>> >>> Memory: always use binary value, i.e. KB = 1024 Bytes. >>> >>> That made it easy:..... >> >> >> It's not easy. For example, you cannot dump 15MB region of memory (RAM) >> to 15MB file. It doesn't mention tapes, wires (10MB/s - is it "binary" >> or "decimal" ?), etc. >> >>> Now with M$ (and others), you never know where they use 1000 or use >>> 1024 in their arithmetic to calculate the number they report to you on >>> memory or disk usage. Very much like the Mix-N-Match shops. >> I learned in 'computers' K is 1024 and salaries K is 1000. So 15M of memory dumps into 15M files just fine unless you decide to use VB or some other utility that adds its own data and forget to account for that. Fairly easy to know which value for K is being used, the sneakiest. Otherwise thy would declare up front what K represents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
