* Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in
@ 2001-12-22 16:40 Thomas Hood
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From: Thomas Hood @ 2001-12-22 16:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux-kernel
Stephen Satchell wrote:
> Unless you can get the business community to cry
> out for the change (so that BSD, what's left of BeOS,
> and Microsoft make the change) this is a Bad Idea(tm).
The thing to do is to tell the pointy-haired boss that
without the 'i' he is being shortchanged 2.5% of the
RAM he's paying for.
If that doesn't work, tell him the 'i' has always been
there between the K and the B. Couldn't he see it?
He must need new reading glasses.
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* Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in
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@ 2001-12-22 18:33 ` Ted Unangst
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From: Ted Unangst @ 2001-12-22 18:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thomas Hood; +Cc: linux-kernel
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:
> The thing to do is to tell the pointy-haired boss that
> without the 'i' he is being shortchanged 2.5% of the
> RAM he's paying for.
That will never work. So he bought 1 KB. He just got 1024 bytes, but
only paid for 1000 bytes. What a deal.
--
"A am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international
city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an
international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?"
- M. Barry, Mayor of Washington, DC
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