Messages in this thread |  | | From | Andreas Dilger <> | Date | Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:53:38 -0700 | Subject | Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help |
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On Mar 18, 2002 11:36 -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > According to the standards, where capitalization is used: > (1) For a proper name. > (2) To differentiate between otherwise identical symbols. > > "KB" would mean: > > Kirchoff-Bell > > It needs to be: > > "kb" to mean kilobyte.
Argh. Not this thread again. "kb" is kilo _bits_ not kilo _bytes_.
Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto, \ would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?" http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/adilger/ -- Dogbert
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