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

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From: Dave Olson
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 04:02

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In <1994Apr10.183921.27790@rosevax.rosemount.com> grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:
| : 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.

No, he is right, for some mfgr's and some disks.  In fact *most* 3.5"
disks use 10^6 MB, not 2^20 (and don't refer to KB at all).

A 10 MHz ethernet is 10^7; most clock frequencies are specified this
way, not in powers of 2; e.g., a 100 MHz Indigo2 has an internal
clock of 10^8.
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