On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 01:29:01PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: > gilmap> I prefer it be left as it is, in conformance with standards. > > AFAIK, "KB" is the standard. Can you quote which standard says it is > "KiB"? Can you explain why I never saw it written using this > standard?
gilmap> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html gilmap> Sounds like a personal problem to me. Thorsten> Also, when a luser doesn't grok KiB, what will he do? Throw on google, since he's already in a web browser... This is what I did now. Kib/sec 147 hits KB/sec 96200 hits Enough said for a "personal problem". Given that the standard is more than 5 years old, we can safely conclude that it is deadborn (on the whole earth it is mentioned about twice a month ;-). Should we jump any bandwagon passing through the town without thinking first? Ilya ; To UNSUBSCRIBE: Send "unsubscribe lynx-dev" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
