Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  Only for hard drive manufacturers, perhaps.
> 
>  For the rest of the computer world, unless I've missed
>  a changing of the guard or something, "kilo" is 1024
>  and "mega" is 1024*1024 and so forth...

Yes.  Unless you work in the telcoms industry, where, for example if
you order a 2 Mbit/s line you'll get

  2 * 1024 * 1000 bits / s

;-)
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