On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 16:07, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net> wrote: > > "Ordinary" people wonder why the values aren't 250 instead of 256, 500 > instead of 512, 1000 instead of 1024. They might or might not understand > the technically reasons. However, they don't gain anything from base 10 > over base 2.
Sure. But the battle was lost even in 1985 when Atari did this: http://www.atarimania.com/catalog-atari-atari-germany-10-85_108_S.html The Atari ST 520 had 512 kiB of RAM, but Atari "rounded it up." The ST 1040 had twice that, but it had to be twice the "520" model's, so even though there is no way that 1024 kiB can be rounded to 1040 kB, the model was named 1040. It wasn't the Amiga 1024 ( as in, 1024 kiB of RAM), it was the Amiga 1000. The battle was lost already, 25 years ago. Sad, but there it is. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
