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    SubjectRe: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
    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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    -- A.E. Van Vogt, "The Weapon Shops Of Isher", ASF December 1942
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