There are bits and bits and bytes and decimals and marketing; a bad combination
if ever there was one.
Bits can mean one of two things. One definition of bits is as a transmission
rate -- modem speeds. This is a measure of the number of pulses which are
transmitted in a time unit, usually a sec
Portman wrote:
> One would think that it would be made clear when someone has purchased a
> computer that an 80 GB hard drive only has a capacity of 71 GB . . .
That would be a 71 GiB result from a true 80 GB device, after
subtracting the space devoted to the recovery partition that wouldn't be
Valid or not that has been the way hard drives have been measured as long as
I've owned 'personal' computers that contained hard drives. The first
computers we had were dual floppy kaypros and they didn't have hard drives.
Those we got in the late 70s. The first IBM compatible with a hard drive was
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On another note, when I sent my original message, I got this in my Inbox:
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Yep I got that too... an antispam device, no less :)
-Original Message-
From: Portman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 December 2005 16:46
To: wdvltalk@lists.wdvl.com
Subject: Re: [wdvltalk]
Apparently the reason for this is the deprecation of gigabyte meaning 1024Mb
The [ostensible] correct term for 1024Mb is gibibyte (as defined by SI
units)
Gigabyte should now equal 10^9 bytes
Sounds bloody stupid to me as Kb, Mb etc have always been powers of 2
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