Re: assistance with disk ][ and modern 1.2M floppies

[Paul Guertin <pg@sff.net>]

"Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com> wrote:

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> In article <1e03l8t.tyv52r1s7xm27N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, 
> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
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> > There is a growing suggestion of inventing new terms for the "binary"
> > kilobyte and megabyte, to reduce this sort of confusion and misleading
> > information.  I believe the suggested terms are "kibibyte" and
> > "mebibyte" (short for "kilo-binary-byte" and "mega-binary-byte", as far
> > as I can tell).  I'm not sure what is being suggested for the
> > abbreviations.
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> Seriously, I hope this was a joke.

It's not a joke, and it's not even a suggestion anymore. It's an
international standard, which was quietly approved by the IEC in
December 1998. You can learn more at
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html

Personally, I think it's ugly and I hope it won't catch on.

Paul Guertin
pg@sff.net