From: Jeff Mcadams <jeffm@iglou.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p.
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 07:53:43 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011222075343.A29939@iglou.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200112202303.fBKN3qY25517@irishsea.home.craig-wood.com> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112220850330.8631-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0112220850330.8631-100000@uplift.swm.pp.se>; from swmike@swm.pp.se on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 08:52:42AM +0100
Also sprach Mikael Abrahamsson
>On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 ncw@axis.demon.co.uk wrote:
>> Actually a 1 Mb/s connection is 1024000 bits/second (ie not 1000000
>> or 1048576 bits/second).
>But gigabit ethernet is clocked at 1.25GHz with 8b10-encoding, meaning
>you'll get literally 1.000.000.000 bits/second over that line. As far
>as I know this is true for all kinds of ethernet.
>Basically, it's only when it comes to memory terms that we use 1024 as
>a base.
Again..."Uhm...no."
Ethernet isn't the only networking technology out there.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-22 12:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-20 18:36 Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p Dana Lacoste
2001-12-20 19:13 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 19:41 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-21 17:50 ` Mike Harrold
2001-12-21 18:41 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-21 18:49 ` lk
2001-12-21 19:12 ` Kent Borg
2001-12-22 4:51 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2001-12-20 19:43 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p David Weinehall
2001-12-20 23:12 ` [OT] " Wilfried Weissmann
2001-12-20 23:13 ` Nicholas Knight
2001-12-20 23:03 ` ncw
2001-12-22 7:52 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2001-12-22 12:53 ` Jeff Mcadams [this message]
2001-12-22 15:03 ` Dirk Moerenhout
2001-12-22 15:20 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel Alan Cox
2001-12-22 16:10 ` Stephen Satchell
2001-12-22 17:43 ` Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel p mirabilos {Thorsten Glaser}
2001-12-22 22:21 ` Vojtech Pavlik
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2001-12-20 19:27 Dana Lacoste
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