Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in

Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in

[Thomas Hood]

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.

Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in

[Ted Unangst]

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.


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