>> What I seem to remember is something about there not actually being 1000 >> bytes to a killer-byte. Or was it bits to a byte? > > I think there are 1024 bytes in a Kb.
There are indeed 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, unless you happen to be selling hard disks when the numbers can mean a lot of different things. For a quick overview see <http://storagereview.com/guide2000/ref/hdd/geom/formatBinary.html> To keep it list relevant ;-) there are similar issues with formatted storage media in cameras (a 512MB CF card that my 1Ds says is full, reads as 467MB when copied to my hard disk) <http://www.dpreview.com/articles/mediacompare/> FWIW there are 4 bits to the nibble, 8 to the byte and any number your CPU manufacturer feels like to the word (I've worked on machines with odd numbers like 7 and 60 bits to the word in the past) bye for now Keith Cooper =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
