Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:33:17 -0800 (PST) | From | Ted Unangst <> | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in |
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:
> 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.
That will never work. So he bought 1 KB. He just got 1024 bytes, but only paid for 1000 bytes. What a deal.
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