On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 04:45:47PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: >It certainly was in my experience. I went through my larval stage back >in the '80s, in the days when email meant a nightly long-distance phone >call and pathalias was a really useful program - and back then, at >least in my experience (which included a lot of netnews, ie, not just a >handful of people physically near me), usage was indeed as consistent >as the `quantifiers' page I pointed at makes it sound.
Uh huh. Explain the 1.2MB floppy. Or machines with 65K RAM. We're further in time from the disk size lawsuits than those lawsuits were from the days when there were at least three contradictory definitions of "MB" in active use. The history on this goes back to the 50s, long before kids on BBSs decided they were right and the rest of the world was wrong. Get over it. In the days when "k" and "K" meant something different (even though it was a horribly confusing distinction) a case could be made. Once the world got to "M" it was over, and the best thing we can do is forget that people ever misused standard prefixes and stand up for sanity. Mike Stone _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
