From owner-cvs-all Sat Oct 31 07:36:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA08474 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:36:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from veda.is (veda.is [193.4.230.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA08458; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 07:36:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from adam@veda.is) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.9.0/8.9.0) id PAA04495; Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:35:56 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199810311535.PAA04495@veda.is> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa atapi-cd.c wcd.c In-Reply-To: <19981031120918.Y5846@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Oct 31, 98 12:09:18 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 15:35:56 +0000 (GMT) Cc: luigi@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Use "KB" instead of "Kb" for KiloBytes, consistently with other > > drivers and common practices. > > Since when was K an abbreviation for "kilo"? According to more common > practice, this should be kB. K is an abbreviation for kB, from when it was popular for people to describe memory sizes (ROM, RAM, floppies, etc.) as "8 K", "64 K", "360 K" and such, just as people now say Meg and Gig about these things. The atrocity "KB" has never been correct, kB and kb/s are normal usage. It is also confusing that MB means 10^3 * 2^10 bytes for disk manufacturers, and I wonder how they define GB and TB... -- Adam David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message