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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net>
To:        freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dummynet
Message-ID:  <199810080008.UAA08119@bilver.magicnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <199810071738.SAA08935@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Oct 7, 98 06:38:51 pm"

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Luigi Rizzo recently said:

> > In the SI units, as expanded for computer folks, b == bits, B ==
> > bytes, k == 1000 and K == 1024.  M == 1000000 or 2^20 (or sometimes
> > 1024 * 1000).

> there's nothing worse than imprecise definitions! the b/B
> differentiation is widespread, but k/K are often used
> interchangeably.

And when someone said they had a system that tranfered at 6mb/sec
I responded that I type much faster than that.

Bill

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