Hello,
[NTOS]: 1MB is not 1000 * 1KB...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
1 KB = 1000 byte (decimal)
1 KiB = 1024 byte (binary)
1 MB = 1000 KB
1 MiB = 1024 KiB
Would be nice if ReactOS goes across the border
and also uses the modern SI unit definitions ;-)
If in code definitions or
WIndows uses internally the classic Definitions of MB and KB and we
should do so, too. If you want it called MiB and KiB then its a GUI
thing, nothing internal.
Am 18.04.2010 12:10, schrieb breakoutbox:
Hello,
[NTOS]: 1MB is not 1000 * 1KB...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte
1 KB =
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
Von: Daniel Reimer daniel.rei...@stud-mail.uni-wuerzburg.de
Gesendet: 18.04.2010 12:46:51
An: ReactOS Development List ros-dev@reactos.org
Betreff: Re: [ros-dev] Commit by sir_richard :: r46904
reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/miarm.h
WIndows uses internally
Development List ros-dev@reactos.org
Betreff: Re: [ros-dev] Commit by sir_richard :: r46904
reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/miarm.h
WIndows uses internally the classic Definitions of MB and KB and we
should do so, too. If you want it called MiB and KiB then its a GUI
thing, nothing internal.
Well
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
I am talking in general, about attempts to correct Microsoft.
2010/4/18 breakoutbox breakout...@web.de
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
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 cae...@gmail.com wrote:
I am talking in general, about attempts to correct Microsoft.
2010/4/18 breakoutbox breakout...@web.de
Olaf Siejka
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 ajf...@googlemail.comwrote:
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,
