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From: Chris Kalisiak
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 02:38

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Brian L. Brush (USF) (brush@soleil.acomp.usf.edu) wrote:
>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.

>     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)

This is the key phrase here. More marketing bullshit.

>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.


Chris
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