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It's 28 Dec 96  23:38,
We'll return to hart@opera.iinet.net.au and All's
discussion of Dialix Flat Rate is poor value.

 ha> k = 1000
 ha> K = 1024
 ha> m = 1000000
 ha> M = 1048576
 ha> g = 1000000000
 ha> G = 1073741824

Maybe, though I'm not 100% sure on these, as 'm' could get confused with
"milli" (and we don't want our Ethernets to run at 0.01 bits / sec!!! ;)
).  I have seen this done for k and K though.  I usually figure that
memory uses the k = 1024 convention, data rates used the k = 1000 (etc)
convention.  Disk space is a littke unclear, depends on why you talk to!
(though I prefer the k = 1024 here myself, as it's data storage). :-)

In short, if you're talking about storage capacity (RAM, disk, tape,
etc), I assume k = 1024, for anything else (including transmission
rates), k = 1000...

 ha> b = bits
 ha> B = bytes

That's a common convention, which I use myself. :)

 ha> Thus:

 ha> 64kb is 64000 bits
 ha> 64Kb is 65536 bits
 ha> 64kB is 64000 bytes
 ha> 64KB is 65536 bytes

That's one way to work. :-)  However, as I said, with the 'm' and 'M',
you can run into grief in some fields, if you use this approach. ;)

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