To quote... "I reject your reality and substitute my own!". There's no confusion at all if you keep in mind that computer memory and storage terms are base 2.
Ignore the 1.44M floppy disk as a weird case unto itself, and hard drive companies use of 1,000,000 kilobyte "megabytes" and 1,000,000 1,000,000 byte "megabytes" for "gigabytes" as marketing hype. Much much easier than a "new reality" of a whole bunch of un-needed terminology from people who seem to be channeling Adam Savage. ;) "Henceforth tires shall be called toroidal pneumatic traction devices." Means exactly the same thing, so why invent a new name? A case of people with nothing better to do, but wanting to make themselves look important? This whole thing wouldn't have even been thought of if the hard drive industry had simply used the long established specifications rather than choosing to artificially "inflate" the capacity of their products. Makes me wonder if anyone ever proposed a law requiring them to state exact capacities, like was done to require monitor companies to state the actual viewable image size, measured diagonally? Finally, IMHO, kibibyte, mebibyte etc, they sound like irritating "baby talk". Oooohhh! Lookit the widdle mebibyte! Itsocuuuute! ;) --- On Thu, 12/3/09, Scott Holder <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Scott Holder <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: kibimebigibi and Original Mac/UBUNTU > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, December 3, 2009, 1:24 PM > 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 -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
