Shmuel, I always used K, with the understanding it was 1024 ...if you write assembler a base register used to cover 4K ,,4096 bytes ....it's all through IBM manuals as far as I know ...unless your doing baseless.....
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 3, 2013, at 3:58 PM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 05/02/2013 > at 09:16 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> said: > >> Ok guys ..I understand the science here but I learned a K = 1024 >> bytes > > Back in the 1960's people who used K when they meant 1024 unsderstood > that they were misusing it. In the same epoch I also learned that K > was 512, which was an even worse misuse. > >> am I too old school ..... > > No; were you old schjool then you would use K as 1000 exclusively. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
