Re: New IIgs and TW upgrading

["Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net>]

"Glenn Jones" <rg.jones@rogers.com> wrote in message
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> "Bill Garber" <willy4SPAM6pa@comXcast.net> wrote in message
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> > > (Since the TWGS is already a daughterboard/daughtercard, shouldn't the
> > > cache board be a  granddaughterboard?)
> >
> > This confims it. All Apple II people ARE insane. ;-)
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> Hey Bill. here'e one for you ...
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> If a million bytes is a megabyte
> and a trillion bytes is a terabyte
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> why didn't they call a billion bytes a bigabyte?
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> Glenn

Coz that just ain't "square" man, can you dig it?
terabyte=megabyte squared. megabyte=kbyte squared
FYI, the square root of "bigagyte" is 32 kbyte.

> well I thought it was funny when I thought of it at the time .....   :O)

I will give it a C++.     ;-)

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