Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 13:52:13 -0500 | From | "Eric S. Raymond" <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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Steven Cole <scole@lanl.gov>: > I see that in the very latest Configure.help version, 2.76, > available at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/cml2/ Eric has decided to > follow the following standard: IEC 60027-2, Second edition, 2000-11, > Letter symbols to be used in electrical technology - Part 2: > Telecommunications and electronics. and has changed all the > abbreviations for Kilobyte (KB) to KiB, Megabyte (MB) to MiB, etc, > etc.
This change came as a patch from David Woodhouse. I think the new abbreviations are awful ugly, myself, but they do have the virtue of not being ambiguous. So I swallowed hard and took the patch. -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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