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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter2-Aug-15 1:46
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
So IEC decided to 'clear the air' with some dust

No, I'd agree with the IEC - it does make sense.
"Kilo", "Mega", "Giga", and so forth are prefixes with a specific meaning - which was established back in 1799 (during the French revolution! OMG | :OMG: ) which was and is "times 1000", "times 1,000,000"...
When we as an industry started using the terms in the 1950s (or so, I can't find an exact date for it) we abused the terms by using them for binary "times 100 0000 0000b", and so forth. The IEC was trying to correct that as the terms and usage became more common and more confusing in normal usage.
If nothing else, it hopefully stops disk manufacturers confusing the issue by selling disks and quoting the "times 1,000,000,000" size on the adverts and the os reporting a much, much smaller number of available bytes! Laugh | :laugh:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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