On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> David Schwartz wrote:
> > Talk about a cure worse than the disease! So you're saying that 256MB
> > flash
> > cards could be advertised as having 268.4MB? A 512MB RAM stick is
> > mislabelled and could correctly say 536.8MB? That's just plain craziness.
> >
> > Adopting IEC 60027-2 just replaces a set of well-understood problems
> > with
> > all new problems.
>
> Except that you're wrong above. Most 512 MB flash cards are less than 512
> MiB; most of them are, in fact, around 512 MB! RAM, of course, is
> consistently 512 MiB.
>
> This little tidbit discovered in the process of working on an application
> which required powers-of-two flash cards, and finding that one does have to
> use one size larger...
Yeah, and Ethernet speed is measured in Mbps, not Mibps.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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