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kilobyte (KB) 1. n. For processor storage, real and virtual storage, and channel volume, 2**10 or 1024 bytes. 2. n. For disk storage capacity and communications volume, 1000 bytes. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Usage of KB and KiB Bruce Hewson wrote: > Well Radoslaw, > > As I said the original convention for disk was 1000 bytes = 1KByte. No. There was no such convention. Possibly there was no convention at all, although IMHO the most popular convention was IT k=1024, while non-IT k=1000. > M$ did not comply with that convention when they decided to show disk > usage in binary format 1024bytes=1KByte. M$ used k=1024 for disks for many years. Legacy MS-DOS (or rather IBM PC-DOS!) used 1024 for many years. > Only memory (not disk) was specified in binary (1024) convention. Again no. And again, you miss other (non-disk, non-memory) aspects like tapes, networks, disk channels etc. etc. > And then other groups mixed 1000 and 1024 together when they reported > usage. I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB. Neither in M$ nor elsewhere. Do you know such case ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 0000025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 01.01.2007 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci opacony) wynosi 118.064.140 z. W zwizku z realizacj warunkowego podwyszenia kapitau zakadowego, na podstawie uchwa XVI WZ z dnia 21.05.2003 r., kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA moe ulec podwyszeniu do kwoty 118.760.528 z. Akcje w podwyszonym kapitale zakadowym bd w caoci opacone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
