Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Dec 2001 17:20:30 -0700 | From | Tom Rini <> | Subject | Re: Configure.help editorial policy |
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On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 06:52:26PM -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>: > > Another option: maybe the choice of KB vs KiB vs KKB should be a > > configuration choice. > > You *must* be joking. >
Hopefully. Here's a serious one tho. Why don't we say at the bottom: 1 kB (or KB or KiB or ...) is 2^10 bytes. Like we do for code that can be compiled as a module... As long as we're consistant in the suffix, and we define it, it doesn't matter what it is.
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