Both sides have their own historical reasons for keeping things the way they
are.

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Faulds <[email protected]>wrote:

> I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard Disk manufacturers have
> tried to make them wrong in this case.
>
>
> On 18 April 2010 20:58, Olaf Siejka <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I am talking in general, about attempts to "correct Microsoft".
>>
>> 2010/4/18 breakoutbox <[email protected]>
>>
>> Olaf Siejka schrieb:
>>>
>>>  Mainly for compatibility reasons. If Windows does it that way, so would
>>>> do Windows apps and drivers, depending on it. If we change this default
>>>> behaviour, even with introducing some kind of aliases for the previous one,
>>>> we risk breakage, that would could be hard to determine/locate. When 
>>>> ReactOS
>>>> gets stable enough, i see no obstacle to change this, but right now, let us
>>>> not put too many mushrooms into single basket.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hm,
>>>
>>> how does a change to these #define names probably risk breakage ?
>>>
>>>
>>> #define _1MB (1024 * _1KB)
>>>
>>> in /trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/miarm.h
>>>
>>>
>>>
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