Arthur T. wrote:
On 31 Jul 2007 03:33:03 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) wrote:
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I have never met 1000 and 1024 mix, like 1*1000*1024=1MB. Neither in
M$ nor elsewhere. Do you know such case ?
3.5" floppies. As noted in many places on the net, their formatted
capacity is:
80 tracks × 18 sectors × 512 bytes/sector × 2 sides = 1474560 bytes =
1440 KiB.
So a "1.44MB" floppy is 1.44 * 1000 * 1024 bytes.
Agreed. I have never bothered to do the math, but in fact 1.44 is
neither Mi, nor M!
However - again - is it M$ nomenclature ? IMHO it's common name for
those floppies, but not related to Windows or M$.
Disclaimer: I'm definitely *not* a fan of Microsoft. I have no business
to protect them. I simply discuss "fascinating" kB vs KiB topic.
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