Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 11:24:17 +0100 (MET) | | From | Pozsar Balazs <> | | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help. |
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Please NO NO NO NO!!
Why on earth is it good to develop misunderstandings and inconsistency with well- and widely-known historical abbrevs?
I (and I think I'm far not alone) would hate to see those abbrevs. I really don't want to vomit every time I read configure.help or an ifconfig output.
This is a 3-year old decision, and haven't seen it in use anywhere before. If this knew style would be the common use in IT, then this change is OK. But _not_ now. (and hopefully never).
So may I suggest considering this change a few years later, _if_ it comes into common use?
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> In article <200112201721.KAA05522@tstac.esa.lanl.gov> you wrote: > > 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. > > I did this for nettools (i.e. ifconfig), too: > > RX bytes:2120660294 (1.9 GiB) TX bytes:341183013 (325.3 MiB) > > man page: > > Since net-tools 1.60-4 ifconfig is printing byte counters > with SI units. So 1 KiB are 2^10 byte. Note, the numbers > are truncated to one decimal (which can by quite a large > error if you consider 0.1 PiB is 112.589.990.684.262 bytes :) > ... > SEE ALSO > route(8), netstat(8), arp(8), rarp(8), ipchains(8) > http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html - Prefixes > for binary multiples > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
-- pozsy
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