On Sat, 5 Jan 2002 18:02:52 M R wrote: ... >The guy who maintains this website should be >anti-metric. If you go little above in the webpage, >he argues that computers have defied metric system. > >Madan >... Actually the above is a cheap excuse. Unfortunately the problem here is that these guys decided to build computers using a binary number of bits, i.e. 4 bits, 8 bits, 16 bits, 32 bits, etc (AARRGHH!!). Had they been more user-friendly to the decimal system and they would have created 10-bit, 20-bit, 30-bit, etc computers, alas! IMHO there is no reasonable justification to use binary powers for bit buses. What can I say?... :-S
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