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

["Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com>]

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In article <1e03l8t.tyv52r1s7xm27N%dempson@actrix.gen.nz>, 
dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:


> 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.

Sounds to me like someone was mumbling when they said this. Did you give the
person you heard it from a sobriety test?

Seriously, I hope this was a joke. I know that some people, though
ignorance, believe 1K = 1000, 1M = 1,000,000, or that 2000 starts a new
millennium, but ignorance is no reason to come up with a term like
"mebibyte"!

Mike Westerfield