On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM, breakoutbox <[email protected]> wrote:
> ShadowFlare wrote: > >> 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]<mailto: >> [email protected]>> wrote: >> >> I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard >> Disk manufacturers have tried to make them wrong in this case. >> >> > I didn't talk about history. > > But if You like :: let's look into history. One day in ... > > ".. December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the > leading international organization for worldwide standardization in > electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and > symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data > processing and data transmission. The prefixes are as follows .." > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html > > ... and since 1998 things changed. > Sorry, thought you were talking about the size and not the name. Thanks for clarifying.
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