> > > > Expanding on my message. > > My point is that there are two definitions of Kilobytes. In one a > Kilobyte=1000bytes, in the other a Kilobyte=1054bytes and this dichotomy > is used to cheat people.
REPLY Sorry to disagree but since the late sixties when I first learned computer terminology it was understood that one kilobyte of memory was in fact 1024 bytes. It was the closest thing to 1000 consistent with a number divisible by 8 in accordance with the octal number system. You could not get a 1000 byte chip. It was 1024. Remember the early Eprom memories of 1k, 2k etc. A 2708 was considered a big memory chip back then. We were in programmer heaven when the 2716 came out and had 16 kBytes of available space. WOW!! <VBG> volatile memory chips of 256 bytes was the norm. And programming was done by assembling each word one bit at a time. when one whole byte was assembled we uploaded the word into memory by toggling a switch. Megabytes and terabytes and never even thought of until we started watching Star trek. _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
