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| Thread ID: 42274 | 2004-02-06 04:34:00 | Missing GB's | GeoffW (787) | Press F1 |
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| 213168 | 2004-02-08 20:03:00 | > And the 1.44MB is very simply defined as 1440*1024 > (2880*512). IBM's "megabyte is 1000 * 1024 bytes. > > There's an interesting paper by Markus Kuhn about > computer units of size (www.cl.cam.ac.uk > its.txt). Smart guy, the > rest of his online stuff is interesting too. Very interesting article. Makes you wonder how anyone in the computer industry can agree on anything. Then again, maybe that explains why Wintel PCs can be so unstable! :D Lizard |
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