Yes, I think you're right there. The general rule is that a capital letter signifies something larger than the base unit, by a given magnitude. Conversely, a lower case letter is smaller than the base unit, by the same magnitude. For example,
MB = megabyte (a thousand bytes) mb = millibit (a thousandth of a bit) Since there is no such thing as a millibit, people take "mb" to mean "MB". On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:38:12 -0500, Mark Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought it was KB == kilobytes and Kb == kilobits... the /s is optional > since most folks know what you mean... > > G = giga > M = mega > K = kilo > k = ??? (don't know if there is such a thing...) > m = milli > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Jose M. Sanchez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 2:27 PM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1 > > > > > > Yeap I'm getting just shy of 800kbps in the boonies... > > > > BTW: It's not "250-500Kb/s" it's "250-500Kbps" (kilo Bits per second > > )the latter gives you about 25-50kb/s (Kilo Bytes per > > second). Otherwise > > you would have the world's fastest cable modem... > > > > 56kbps modems give you ~ 5kb/s xfer rate, etc... > > > > > > |-----Original Message----- > > |From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Wilson > > |Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 6:07 PM > > |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > |Subject: Re: [newbie] Will Cable Modems Work with 8.1 > > | > > | > > | > > | Hello List.. > > |Will Cable modem work with mandrake 8.1?? I am updateing my > > |box and I am > > |curious if a cable modem will work and if so which specific > > |kinds work.. I > > |am just too far outside of DSL, now that I moved.. So let me > > know your > > |feedback.. I am located in Richmond VA. If any one has had > > |good luck with > > |one kind of ISP please post.. Mark -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "I think that throttling writers is fine and good, but as it stands now, the dirty buffer balancing will throttle anybody, not just the writer." -- Linus Torvalds
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