Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 21:55:45 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bootable ext. USB SSD for backup Message-ID: <20170316215545.58ea99dd@archlinux.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <39513.128.135.52.6.1489695571.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <20170316194612.GA1748@c720-r314251> <33953.128.135.52.6.1489694167.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <92024f3c-2ab3-1741-97de-36455ca56b7e@gmx.net> <39513.128.135.52.6.1489695571.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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On Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:19:31 -0500 (CDT), Valeri Galtsev wrote: >On Thu, March 16, 2017 3:11 pm, Martin S. Weber wrote: >> Well, there's a proper SI prefix for powers of two, which for your >> joke, Valeri, is "kibi" (2^10), =20 > >I know, I know. The joke was meant to be consumed orally, not in a >written form. And it is so old that at the time I've heard it for the >first time, there were no Ki- Mi- prefixes (and we didn't dream about >Gi then). Or probably I was so ignorant then... =46rom the Wiki link I posted: "The unit symbol for the kibibyte is KiB.[1] The unit was established by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) in 1998,[2]"=20 I didn't verify this information, IIRC I programmed C64 Assembler around 10 years before 1998 ;). So the older people from Generation X and those who were born before Generation X, programmed Computers before KiB was born. Computers, such as the Sinclair QL and C64 established Computers to many consumers for the very first time, so the older people from Generation X were the first averaged consumers, who could get easily in contact with computers. Btw. I'm from 1966, IOW a child of the 80s.
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