[MEncoder-users] Using SI units in mencoder

[Trent Piepho]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, asym wrote:
> At 19:06 2/8/2005, Trent Piepho wrote:
> >On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, asym wrote:
> > > Software won't change either, too much of it from too many different
> > > authors for it to be corrected within our lifetimes.  And software
> > > developers, like the one responding, have "staked a claim" that they are
> > > unwilling to give up.  Years ago the IEEE recommended people call 1024
> > > bytes a "kibibyte" and abbreviate it "KiB" but to this day nobody 
> > does.  SI
> >
> >Probably because the use of kilobyte to mean 2^10 bytes was around for decades
> >before IEEE came up with a new name.  The IEEE basically told programmers that
> >they need to stop using the terms they've used since bytes were invented
> >because hard drive manfacture's marketing departments want them.
> 
> The is just so much BS.  The use of kilobyte to mean 10^3 bytes was around 
> long long long before software developers and self righteous technophiles 

Really?  The datasheet for the 4004 microprocessor,
http://www.piercefuller.com/collect/i4004/, from 1971 uses K to mean 1024 when
referring to numbers of bytes or bits.  Do you have a reference to kilobytes
meaning 1000 bytes that predates that?