Re: Bad Metric ... 1k = 1024 or 1000?

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettenct (formerly Mr.I'mAnOutOfControlLisaSimpsonFannnn))]

In article <1e093o8.1mnjxfqc10qr9N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>,
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:

> Jon Bettenct (formerly Mr.I'mAnOutOfControlLisaSimpsonFannnn)
> <jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet> wrote:
> 
> > > GS System
> > > and Windows 95 both use 1k = 1024.
> > 
> > Windows 95 says 1K = 1024
> > GS System says 1K = 1024
> 
> No argument with these two, but...
> 
> > Macintosh says 1K = 1000
> 
> What gives you this impression?  As far as I can tell, the Mac also uses
> 1 KB = 1024 bytes (everywhere in the Finder and most other places in the
> OS).

What gave me that impression was that the Get Info box said a 143360 byte
disk image was 143KB. Shortly after I posted that message, I started to
think that it just might be rounding it off to the nearest sector.

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