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The Wednesday 2007-05-02 at 11:00 -0700, Kai Ponte wrote:
> Quoting "Carlos E. R." <>:
>
> That is fascinating. I wasn't aware there was an actual change. I just figured
> the hard drive manufacturers were just trying to pull the wool over our
> collective eyes.
They do, of course! It just happens to be correct - now. It wasn't correct
some years back, but they did none the less. Many people have being caught
that way, and when they tried their brand new 80 MB HD the OS said was
only 76.2 MB! And some of them wanted to return the disks as faulty...
(My example is 80 MB to show how old is the problem... my HD was 84MB,
ie, 80 MB, or rather, 80 MiB)
This problem would have never happened if computer people did not
misappropriate the K, M, G prefix changing the long time established
meaning.
I learnt about the kibi, mebi, gibi... prefixes very recently. Ie, I'm a
recent convert, and like most converts I try to get more converts to
redeem myself ;-)
> So, now my memory management documentation is all wrong? I no longer have 4K
> of memory in my TRS-80? :P
ROTFL! X'-)
No, it isn't politically correct now :-P
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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