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- From: v923137@vms.ucc.okstate.edu
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.113409.1@vms.ucc.okstate.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 17:34:09 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, lew@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin A. Lew) writes:
- >>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
- >
- > 213,000,000 bytes *IS* 213 Megabytes. MS-DOS lists the free space
- > you have on your hard drive in bytes. Since MEGA = 10^6,
- > 213 Megabytes is 213,000,000 bytes. In addition, 1 kilobyte is not
- > 1,024 bytes. It is 1,000 bytes. I just studied this stuff in
- > a communication networks course and when I was studying for the CS GRE..
- >
- > Hope this clarifies things..
-
- What? Are you on drugs? Do you really believe that 1 kilobyte is 1,000 bytes
- and not 1,024 bytes?
-
- How much memory does you computer have? 1MB? 4MB? 8MB? Lets say it has 4MB.
- What does your memory count up to when you boot? 4000K? I don't think so.
- Try 4,096 (minus the 384K shadow RAM for some chipsets).
-
- If that doesn't convince you, then lets consider sixteen bit addressing.
- You can address 65,535 possible memory locations using a sixteen bit address.
- Are you trying to tell me that the old TRS-80 had 65.535K and not 64K?
- I don't think so. Maybe you need to take a class in CPU architecture and
- come back with an intelligent argument.
-
- -Jason
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