Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in | From | Thomas Hood <> | Date | 22 Dec 2001 11:40:25 -0500 |
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Stephen Satchell wrote: > Unless you can get the business community to cry > out for the change (so that BSD, what's left of BeOS, > and Microsoft make the change) this is a Bad Idea(tm).
The thing to do is to tell the pointy-haired boss that without the 'i' he is being shortchanged 2.5% of the RAM he's paying for.
If that doesn't work, tell him the 'i' has always been there between the K and the B. Couldn't he see it? He must need new reading glasses.
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