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 -- MPlayer RPMs maintainer: http://www.piorunek.pl/~dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/ "The Universe doesn't give you any points for doing things that are easy." -- Sheridan to Garibaldi in Babylon 5:"The Geometry of Shadows"