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Article #3493Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Chris Kalisiak
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 22:30
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 1994 22:30
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Patrick Torre (torre@crl.com) wrote: >In <1994Apr8.224856.25548@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes: >>What I find amazingly dumb is when they specify a drive size in MB where >>1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes rather than 2^20. Don't tell me they're quoting >>unformatted size either, Seagate documentation shows the following for >>a pre-formatted ST4096: >>Cyls Heads Sectors Capacity >>1024 9 17 80MB >>Well, 1024 * 9 * 17 * 512 = 80,216,064 bytes, which they call 80MB. >>I call it 76 MB. >Sorry, >When refering to Disk and Network capacity the convention is that >1MB = One Million Bytes NOT 2^20 Bytes. What's so difficult about this concept? It is accepted that 1 KB = 1024 B, and 1 MB = 1024 KB. Don't you play Trivial Pursuit? ;-) Seriously, though, it has been a standard. There is no sense in arguing it. Just look at any reputable documentation. If Seagate is trying to pull the wool over someone's eyes by saying that 80,000,000 bytes is the same as 80 Mbytes, then they are less than reputable. >What speed is a 10Mbit Ethernet?, A 16Mbit Token-Ring? >(16 MHz = 16,000,000 Hz ). There are two different things being discussed here. When bytes are being referred to, it's 1024 bytes in one kilobyte, etc. Chris -- Chris Kalisiak |"Pound for pound, lame puns are your best entertain- kalisiak@cs.buffalo.edu | ment value." -- Gogo Dodo, 'Tiny Toon Adventures' V076N3W7@ubvms.bitnet |I'm a student; |You're in a Maze of Twisty Little Tel:+1(716)692-5128 |I don't speak for UB. |Unix Variants - All Different.
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