On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 10:10:11AM +1100, Jason Ball wrote: > > Eh? 1B = 8 bits. Or have video card makers now started screwing the public > > over by counting thei video memory in bits? I hope HDD manufacturers never > > catch on to this trick (like redefining a gig as 1 billion bytes, so their > > hard drives look bigger). > > That has been the case for a number of HDD manufacturers for a while. > > http://www.eweek.com/print_article/0,3048,a=107838,00.asp
I know that, it's why I said it. What I was referring to was the possible attempt by the HDD manufacturers to list drive capacities in bits, so they're numbers are 8 times as big. Sigh. - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
