Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!

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From: Grant Edwards
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 1994 18:39

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Patrick Torre (torre@crl.com) wrote:

: >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 speed is a 10Mbit Ethernet?,  A 16Mbit Token-Ring?
: (16 MHz = 16,000,000 Hz ).

Wrong.  For disk capacity K is 2^10 and M is 2^20.  For communications
the normal base 10 numbers are used: K = 10^3, M = 10^6.

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Grant Edwards                                 |Yow!  Loni Anderson's hair
Rosemount Inc.                                |should be LEGALIZED!!
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grante@aquarius.rosemount.com                 |

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From: grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
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