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

Robert Love
2001-12-20T18:26:29Z

On Thu, 2001-12-20 at 13:02, Steven Cole wrote:

> I see that in the very latest Configure.help version, 2.76, available at
> http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Eric has decided to follow the
> following standard: IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, Letter symbols
> to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: Telecommunications and
> electronics. and has changed all the abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to
> KiB, Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, etc.

Personally? This is hideous, confusing, and unneeded.

GiB in my mind is a gigabit, anyhow.

Robert Love