Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Dec 1996 18:05:06 -0700 (MST) | From | Michael Ballbach <> | Subject | Re: GB vs. MB |
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For crying out loud, if we're goping to make this big a deal over a convension, let's report the size in cylinders, sectors, and heads. ;)
On Tue, 3 Dec 1996, Yakko J. Warner wrote:
> > Kevin Lentin wrote this: > > > >Mark H. Wood Wrote ... > >> > > >> > Yes. Real tools should display real information. > >> > >> Amen. The sheep will continue to buy Win95 anyway. Let more refined > >> operating systems appeal to more discriminating tastes. It's not like > >> the stockholders are going to call for our replacement if sales are down. :-) > > > >Ummm, Win95 (be it a real tool or not) uses _real_ megabytes: 2^20. So, if > >Linux were to change it would probably be the only OS out there that has > >conceded to the drive manufacturers. If Microsoft can hold out, then we > >certainly can. > > i'm not sure that changing the definition of 1GB to be 1000*1000000 is the > Right Thing. as far as i'm concerned, the hard drive manufacturers' > marketroids screwed up, and 1GB _is_ 1024*1048576.. > > 'kay bye. > Yakko [who's too lazy to alter his sig to make it Chris's..] > > \\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\ > \ A!JW22 WAR+++i^ P&B++ HN+++! SL++i^ RI++ I++++ \ yakko@village.ios.com \ > \ P++ Dai T428 $++++dmvap E70a H5 PonSadMeal \ yakkoj@ix.netcom.com \ > \ Vr++m++ Xpackage \ yakko@wtower.com \ > \\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\\////\\\ >
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