Hello Radoslaw, Then we had better "agree to disagree".
1. there was a convention. 2. MicroSoft (M$) wrote PC-DOS on contract to IBM. On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:30:28 +0200, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Bruce Hewson wrote: >> Well Radoslaw, >> >> As I said the original convention for disk was 1000 bytes = 1KByte. > >No. There was no such convention. Possibly there was no convention at >all, although IMHO the most popular convention was IT k=1024, while >non-IT k=1000. > >> M$ did not comply with that convention when they decided to show disk >> usage in binary format 1024bytes=1KByte. > >M$ used k=1024 for disks for many years. Legacy MS-DOS (or rather IBM >PC-DOS!) used 1024 for many years. > <snip> > > >-- >Radoslaw Skorupka >Lodz, Poland > <snip> Regards Bruce Hewson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
