Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 10:59:19 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: mavery@mail.otherwhen.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: time for another upgrade? Message-ID: <373DA7E7.1ED1EF65@softweyr.com> References: <199905151407.JAA01597@hostigos.otherwhen.com>
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Mike Avery wrote:
>
> Money is ALWAYS decimal because people normally use a decimal
> system. A gigabuck is 1,000,000,000 dollars. A megabuck is
> 1,000,000 dollars.
>
> Memory is ALWAYS binary, because current computers are binary
> systems, so a gigabyte is 1,073,741,824 bytes, a megabyte is
> 1,048,576 bytes.
As the hackers jargon file points out, "K" means either 1024 or 1000,
whichever will do YOU the least good. So if someone offers to sell
you disk space at $1K per 1M, that means they're selling you 1,000,000
bytes of space for $1024. See how simple it is?
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
http://www.softweyr.com/~softweyr wes@softweyr.com
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