From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Feb 20 17:39:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au (053.a.010.mel.iprimus.net.au [210.50.200.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE4937B41D for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:39:03 -0800 (PST) Received: (from tim@localhost) by descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g1L1VJr33323 for doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:31:19 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from tim) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:31:19 +1100 From: Tim Robbins To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inconsistent use of data units Message-ID: <20020221123119.A33316@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> References: <3C743707.3080505@adacel.com> <20020221003116.GA11893@hades.hell.gr> <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3C744D39.1020308@adacel.com>; from michael.wardle@adacel.com on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:28:25PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 12:28:25PM +1100, Michael Wardle wrote: > Like it or not, 1000 bytes != 1024 bytes. KB (or preferably kB) means > 1000 bytes, and that's not the units we usually talk about. Like it or not, kilobytes are what people have been using for years. Sure, it's a little confusing having "kilo" mean different things depending on context, but not nearly as confusing as trying to get everyone to use these new cat-food units. Can you give an example of an operating system other than Linux (and then, last time I checked only the kernel used KiB etc.)? Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message