On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 02:59:23 +0200 (CEST) Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That is true only in the technical sense. I.e., the spec sheet for my > laptop says it has a 20GB harddrive (and in 2 pt. font, at the bottom, > they define a GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes). So, in the technical sense, my > drive is only 18.6 GB (20e9/1024^3). Leave it up to the marketing types > to cloud the issue. Actually the term for 1024^3 bytes is mebibyte, and 1024 of them is a gibibyte: http://kerneltrap.com/node.php?id=340&PHPSESSID=cc5d94e5ff669af1a325ba1d5196c985 Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
