Date   : Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:24:18 +0100
From   : me@... (me@...)
Subject: Units of memory, Was: Master Ethernet upgrade

On 29 Jul 2009, at 20:29, Rick Murray wrote:

> I still believe it all came about from a marketing con. For all  
> eternity
> (i.e. before zero Unixtime) we used kilobyte and we all knew it meant
> 1024 because a power of two is logical. Powers of ten only make  
> sense to
> a decimal computer and I'm not aware of such a thing (though no doubt
> somebody has tried...).
>
> Nowadays? My 250Gb harddisc is something like 232Gb if measured
> 'correctly'.

Increasingly off-topic side note:

Mac OS X 10.6 "Snow Leopard" now measures disk sizes using decimal  
gigabytes, rather than binary ones.

So my 500,107,862,016 byte hard disk is reported as "500.11GB".

-- 
David Glover
http://www.davidglover.org/