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rmf@media.uucp (Roger Fujii) writes:

>gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu (Tom Sorensen) writes:
>>nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:

>>The first major case of this occuring, AFAIK, is with "360K" disks. Although
>>*EVERYONE* called them 360K they were really only 320*1024 bytes... (ie- 320K)

>What are you talking about????

I screwed up... many, many people have now pointed this out to me. Open
mouth, insert foot, echo internationally.

>>>It's as bad as an airline selling the same seat twice - any other
>>>business that did the same thing would get sued out of existence.
>>It's a matter of definitions, and the public has redefined MB.

>Actually, the whole problem is because it isn't really clear what
>a megabyte is.  Is it 2^20, or 1000*1K?

For those of us who work in base 2 as easily as base 10, it's 2^20.
For those who work in marketing for a storage company, however, it's
1000*1024. I've personally given up trying to correct it.

Heck, you even see people saying thay with the latest version of some DOS
memory manager they get "643K free!". Of course we all know that you only
have a base memory of 640K and what the actually have is somewhere around
643,000 bytes free out of 655,535.

>What *REALLY* is atrocious is tape drives that advertise 250MB when in 
>reality is 150 w/compression.  

Actually I believe (although after my last blunder I won't state) that
it's only 125 megs w/o compression. At least I've never gotten more than that
on a newly formatted tape using either Colorado's TAPE.EXE or BackMaster.
-- 
Tom Sorensen * gt0040a@prism.gatech.edu * Team OS/2
Chairman, Yellow Jacket OS/2 User's Group * Vice President, Georgia Tech ACM
"OS/2 is what DOS and Windows should have been. Windows/NT aspires to become
what OS/2 is." - Lee Reiswig, May, 1993.