Ed, Yes, there was such a discussion. Moreover, after consulting the archives, I must admit that I made similar points during it.
The only thing redemptive about my recent post is that the earlier ones dealt with much smaller units/prefixes, for which the case I made this time is a little less compelling. It is hard to face up to using 'kibibyte' instead of 'kilobyte' after many years of using the SI prefixes; at least I found it so; but the difference between an exabyte and an ebibyte is so significant that I hope that people who have jibbed at using kibibyte will adopt ebibyte before they form the habit of talking much about exabytes. -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA t. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
