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

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From: Todd Lee Henderson
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1994 21:05

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grante@hydro.rosemount.com (Grant Edwards) writes:

>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.

Wrong group for this discussion, but why in the hell did the first CS
folks redefine kilo and mega?  They are the ones at fault here it would
seem.  If you were to ask most people that have a knowledge of SI units
what a kilobyte or megabyte you would probably get 1000 bytes and 10^6
bytes.  I used to believe this, and I still wonder why it's not so???

Thanks to anyone that can answer this mystery of nature!

Todd

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

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