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- From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 15:40:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzxCvr.Kw9@mccc.edu>
- References: <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi> <1992Dec23.223142.3167@newshost.lanl.gov> <1992Dec25.175707.29098@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
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- In article <1992Dec25.175707.29098@cbnewsl.cb.att.com> rl@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (roger.h.levy) writes:
- =We are not dealing with the difference between formatted and unformatted
- =capacities here - just the difference between 2**20 (hexadecimal 100000)
- =and 10**6 (decimal 1000000). If there is an ANSI definition of what a
- =megabyte is, then it might be valid to say the advertising is bogus. I
- =frankly don't know although it is far more common to mean 2**10 when
- =talking about a megabyte.
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- There's an international standard that says that "mega" is a prefix
- meaning 10**6. Computer types use 2**20 as a convenience and as a convention.
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