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Article #3496Re: RESPONSE: What size is a 17" monitor really ? buyer accuses fraud. HELP!
From: Brian L. Brush (USF)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 01:32
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 01:32
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Grant Edwards (grante@hydro.rosemount.com) wrote:
: 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.
: --
: Grant Edwards |Yow! Loni Anderson's hair
: Rosemount Inc. |should be LEGALIZED!!
: |
: grante@aquarius.rosemount.com |
Perhaps you should not speak with such confidence. Consider this
evidence from the technical notes for a Maxtor Model 7345 drive:
"One megabyte (as defined by Maxtor), equals 10^6, or one million
bytes." (sic)
Most manufacturers adhere to such a practice for obvious reasons. Only your
software measures it "properly."
The "k" as a unit abbreviation is small, by the way, not capital.
--Brian L. Brush (brush@acomp.usf.edu)
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