From owner-cvs-all Fri Oct 30 05:33:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06614 for cvs-all-outgoing; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 05:33:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from conductor.synapse.net (conductor.synapse.net [199.84.54.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA06602 for ; Fri, 30 Oct 1998 05:33:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evanc@concer.to) Received: (qmail 23077 invoked from network); 30 Oct 1998 13:33:35 -0000 Received: from cpu1970.adsl.bellglobal.com (HELO cello) (206.47.37.201) by conductor.synapse.net with SMTP; 30 Oct 1998 13:33:35 -0000 Message-ID: <003201be0409$e4d602c0$c9252fce@cello.concer.to> From: "Evan Champion" To: "Luigi Rizzo" , "Peter Wemm" Cc: , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa wcd.c Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 08:33:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >Yes.. The conventions are a bit grey, but the 'b' usually means bits while >'B' means bytes. Likewise, m = milli and M = mega. So, KB = kilobytes, Kb >= kilobits, KB/s = Kilobytes per second, MB/s = megabytes per second, Mb/s >= megabits per second. I've seen some real mutilations, eg "mbs" which is >nonsense (which by usual conventions would be millibitseconds). The correct SI prefix for kilo is 'k', so therefore it should be kb/s for kilobits per second, and kB/s for kilobytes per second. Some people argue that a capital K should be used to denote a factor of 2^10 instead of 10^3, but no one ever complains about the equally ambiguous (and much worse in terms of error) mega ('M') and giga ('G') prefixes. Because of this I tend to consider 'k' to be the correct prefix, either in base 2 or 10. There is no prefix K in SI; the SI unit K is, of course, Kelvin. Evan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message