many people in fact do use capital 'B' and lowercase 'b' to distinguish
between Bytes and bits, but it is not uncommon for either of the reverse
cases to be true as well. in these cases, it is always best not to make
assumptions.
-stephen waters
"D. Carlos Knowlton" wrote:
>
> Alright, what's going on guys?!
>
> I called Western Digital technical support to find out what I need to do to
> get my U-ATA/66 drives to transfer anything near 66MB/s, (Mega"bytes", note
> the capital 'B')like all the literature and advertising and even the news
> groups are boasting. They corrected me, and said that it is 66Mb/s
> (Mega"bits", as in 1/8th as fast.)
>
> Was I alone in the thinking that the naming convention of "'B' means bytes"
> and "'b' means bits" was universal?
>
> (Okay, maybe I am naive =)
>
> -ck
