D. Finnigan wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Which is why all storage should be declared in bytes. No numbers fiddling,
> no questionable prefixes, no confusion.
>
> ;-)

But how many bits is it? The 8-bits-to-a-byte thing isn't really an 
established standard, it's just been used so long as to be assumed ;) I 
wouldn't put it past some marketing company somewhere to advertise drive 
sizes in different byte sizes just to confuse things.

Some stuff used 4 and 6 bit bytes in the early days, IIRC.

Scott

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