-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-09-03 00:22, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:02:19 +0200, "Carlos E. R." <> wrote:
Now that sizes are in the Tera, the difference has become very important.
Which wouldn't be a problem hadn't the manufacturers of hard disks (or rather their marketing) at some point in history suddenly decided that their capacity would look *much* better if defining a kilobyte as 10³ bytes. My suspicion is that it was also them behind the move to create those XiB units.
It is the other way round. There would be no confussion if computer people (like me) never wrecked the mega kilo etc definition, by changing it to their own liking, disregarding proper usage. Kilo is prefix for one thousand, period. You (we) don't like the definition, right: just use another prefix.
That would be an exageration, and any way, there is no confussion in the names of the units.
Still, the confusion only started at the above mentioned point in time. And guess what, it's still a minority that actually uses the *iB units.
The confusion started the moment computer people (like me) started to use kilo = 1024. I'm guilty of that and I repent. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyALQAACgkQU92UU+smfQUNRwCfYQwNxpu8ZQ4JKaau8qaql4d9 CtwAn01IZU+XqzhHM1C9iPjYtSWKqFDX =QIyE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org