From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 7 17:22:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA02547 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:22:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA02514 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:22:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id UAA09645 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:21:12 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA08119 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:08:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199810080008.UAA08119@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: Dummynet In-Reply-To: <199810071738.SAA08935@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Oct 7, 98 06:38:51 pm" To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:08:03 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message