On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 02:53:30PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote: > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541 >> >> "After a trial period of two years, in 2005 IEEE 1541-2002 was elevated to >> a full-use standard by the IEEE Standards Association, and as of 2007, it >> was scheduled for maintenance." >> >> In short: to address the fact that manufacturers, consumers and others >> often disagreed on the interpretation of numbers the IEEE and other >> organisations decided enough was enough and standardised on a particular >> system for unit of measure. >> > Interesting. I'll be curious to see if KiB (or the other XiB) notations > every become commonly used. My guess that KB, MB are fairly firmly > entrenched, but it will be interesting to watch the social effect this has.
Yeah, please don't use the "i" versions here. They're just nasty and no one in their right mind cares about them. Now, if they meant Kibo-bytes, that'd be awesome. ;-P Danek _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
