[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Docs fixes

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Friday, 16 August 2002, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > read this, it has also explanation about lower and uppercase b for
> > > bits vs bytes and other things on this topic.
> > > with google i also found that both XFree and linux kernel followed
> > > this spec. and changed messages recently.
> > 
> > Yes, they did. And then they changed it back (at least linux kernel
> > guys).
> why?

I don't remember. There was some heated discussion - check the archives
if you're interested.

> > Personally, I'm against Ki,Mi,Gi etc. Yuck.
> me too, it looks ugly/funny
> especially the long forms... kibibit :)

mebibyte? :-P
 
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