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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:02:56 +0000
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSDInstall ISO images
Message-ID:  <20110111130256.000044d9@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <4D2B0267.6020505@bsdimp.com>
References:  <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <20110109030056.0000613f@unknown> <4D2B0267.6020505@bsdimp.com>

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:58:15 -0700
Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> That raises the question: The computer industry has given in and 
> generally says 'G' mean 10^9 not 2^30.  The latter is what Gi means.  
> While bletcherous to my eye, I think we should consider adopting this 
> standard at some point.

I'm not sure the industry in general has given in - for example I
haven't seen any 2 GiB memory modules for sale. Apple has
instead changed the meaning of GB in OS X when used to refer to disks -
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 .

-- 
Bruce Cran



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