In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/28/2007
at 12:18 AM, Bruce Hewson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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.
UNIVAC documentation sometime used the correct value of K, e.g., 65K
words and sometimes used the incorrect value, e.g., 64K words, *for
the same machine*. But at least they never used mixed units, e.g., M
for 1,024,000.
And then there were the people in CDC land who used the term "octal K"
for 512 :-(
BTW, my first computer was decimal. As were[1] my second and third.
[1] Well, the 1401 used zone bits to extend the decimal address.
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