Messages in this thread |  | | From | Matthijs Corpeleijn <> | Date | 17 Dec 96 20:57:34 | Subject | Re: GB vs MB - a proposal |
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Hi..
> mb = 2^20 > MB = 1,000,000 > >MB and mb don't conflict with the commonly used Mb which typically means >Mbits. > >I know you will probably have issues with this, but can you deal?
No. Not really. The oh so happy disk vendors have been a pain in the ass for quite an extended period of time with their warping the original definitions of KB/MB/etc.
Even though in this case 'mb' seems senseless (for millibits), it's still ortogonal, which I think is more important than making people that want to let their product sound bigger 'win'.
If something is 2,000,000 bytes, then it's 2,000,000 bytes, and not 2 MB. If you think an electrotechnician will accept 'mb' or even 'Mb', you're wrong. Also they will not accept memory sizes that are 2 million bytes to be depicted as 2MB. It's a huge hype, kept together by our dearest marketing and salesmen. Let's not keep this going by trying to conform to an eronous assumption.
Mad.
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