Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 09:59:35 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall ISO images Message-ID: <4D2C8C77.4000504@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20110111130256.000044d9@unknown> References: <4D28EB32.9090807@freebsd.org> <20110109030056.0000613f@unknown> <4D2B0267.6020505@bsdimp.com> <20110111130256.000044d9@unknown>
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On 01/11/2011 06:02, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:58:15 -0700 > Warner Losh<imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > >> That raises the question: The computer industry has given in and >> generally says 'G' mean 10^9 not 2^30. The latter is what Gi means. >> While bletcherous to my eye, I think we should consider adopting this >> standard at some point. > I'm not sure the industry in general has given in - for example I > haven't seen any 2 GiB memory modules for sale. Apple has > instead changed the meaning of GB in OS X when used to refer to disks - > http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2419 Right, Apple is using G == 10^9 rather than 2^30 now. That's the proposed change I was asking about. If nothing else, Humanize_number should support producing Gi for 2^30... Memory is about the last thing to change here, mostly because it is impossible, so far, to sell memory that isn't a Nxpower-of-2. Warner
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