Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Chris Wedgwood
2001-12-21T20:08:23Z

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 02:18:47PM -0500, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

So, encouraging non-uniform terminology, breaking applicates *and*
confusing the hell out of everyone is better? Face it, the only
people trying to confuse things are the disk vendors. DRAM is
sold by the MB, everyone talks about MB == 1024*1024... I'm
having a hard time giving a sympathetic ear to anyone try to
change the well established, and consistent (barring the storage
venduhs), standard.

And disks by the GB where GB == 1000^3 so I don't see any problem in
moving from KB to KiB and friends ESPECIALLY AS THEY ARE STANDARDIZED
BEYOND THE KERNEL and nothing will change this.

--CW