Hello, On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> rated at 100mb/s (or is it mB/s ??). All network cards are also rated Sorry, I only pick out this line. According to the SI, 'm' stands for 'mini' or 'mili', so 'mb' stands for milibits, 1/10 of a bit. So a megabit is 'Mb', 'MB' for megabyte. And no, 'KB' is not a kilobyte but a noting meaning 'Kelvin byte', so use 'kB' instead. Officially (according to SI (systeme international), a kilobyte is only 1000 bytes, while in the computer world it is 1024. Therefore, 1024 Bytes == 1 kikiByte. But because this is seldom used, remember this: when it is about bits and bytes, a kilo = 1024, a Mega = 1024*1024, etc. Hopefully this will make things clear (even my telephone company make these mistakes: they have never used bits, but then suddenly, with the introduction of ADSL, bits are back, with only some geeks or physisist who know how to use it). Greetz, Sebastiaan
