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WHATIS.COM | Update
May 21, 2002
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IN THIS ISSUE | This Week's Highlights
1. THIS WEEK AT WHATIS.COM
- Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and all that
2. NEWS FROM OUR TECHTARGET COMMUNITY OF SITES
- Featured from SearchSolaris: Solaris 9 to launch and its product
manager will answer your questions live here on Thursday!
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THIS WEEK AT WHATIS.COM
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Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and all that
by Lowell Thing, Editor
A kibibyte is exactly two to the tenth power bytes (that is, 1,024
bytes). A mebibyte...well, we're not going to tell you any more than
that since we've just (and finally) added a definition that is, in
fact, called "Kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and all that." It complements
the one we already have about kilo, mega, and other decimal
multipliers. If you haven't seen "kibibyte" being used yet, it may
just be early. Actually, for several years, these new binary
prefixes have been an international standard that no one has really
been paying any attention to. But you never know when someone big
might start taking the standard seriously and others might quickly
follow suit.
Here's the definition we just added:
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci825099,00.html
This may be unfairly hypothetical, but let us ask you: Would you
find these prefixes helpful once you got used to seeing and using
them? Or would you be even more confused? We'd be interested to
hear what you think.
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Featured Site: SearchSolaris
Featured Topic: Solaris 9 launches tomorrow, May 22; product manager
to answer questions here Thursday
SearchSolaris is rife with news about the Solaris 9 impending launch
announcement and is bringing Bill Moffitt, Sun's Solaris 9 Product
Line Manager, to a live, online question-and-answer session on
Thursday. Here's a chance for any reader interested in Solaris 9 to
get specific answers to questions directly from the source.
WHEN: Thursday, May 23 at 3 pm EDT (19:00 GMT)
TOPIC: "Everything you ever wanted to know about Solaris 9 -- and the
chance to ask!"
SPEAKER: Bill Moffitt, Solaris 9 Product Line Manager
PRE-REGISTER:
http://webevents.broadcast.com/wsp/index.asp?nEventId=2057
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