On Thursday, 15 August 2002, Arpi wrote:
Hi,
No. the ISO decimal rate is signed by Ki and Mi.
Really?? I'm sure I've seen this story the other way around (Ki and Mi used as binary, not decimal).
you're right...
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
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). Personally, I'm against Ki,Mi,Gi etc. Yuck. -- 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"