Jan Engelhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bleh. Except for storage, base 1024 was used for almost everything > I remember. 4 MB memory meant 4096 KB, and that's still the case today. > Most likely the same for transfer rates.
Nope, transfer rates were initially 1000-based: 9.6 kbps = 9600 bps, 28.8 kbps = 28800 bps, 64 kbps = 64000 bps. Then it went 128, 256, 512 kbps = 512000 bps and 1 Mbps = 2 * 512 kbps = 1024000 bps. But it's limited mostly to serial interfaces. Other networks use 10, 1000 etc. because they have nothing natural in (powers of) 2 so 1 Mbps may be 1000000 bps as well. > It's just that storage vendors broke the computer rule and went with 1000. 1024 etc. is (should be) natural to disks because the sector size is 512 B, 2048 B or something like that. -- Krzysztof Halasa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
