On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:45 AM, Erik Trimble <erik.trim...@sun.com> wrote: > Up until 5 years ago (or so), GigaByte meant a power of 2 to EVERYONE, not > just us techies. I would hardly call 40+ years of using the various > giga/mega/kilo prefixes as a power of 2 in computer science as > non-authoritative. In fact, I would argue that the HD manufacturers don't > have a leg to stand on - it's not like they were "outside" the field and > used to the "standard" SI notation of powers of 10. Nope. They're inside > the industry, used the powers-of-2 for decades, then suddenly decided to > "modify" that meaning, as it served their marketing purposes. >
it's probably just me, but I always raged when calculating anything using imperial units, * binary bytes and time. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
