On Friday 16 August 2002 01:30, 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?
Personally, I'm against Ki,Mi,Gi etc. Yuck.
me too, it looks ugly/funny especially the long forms... kibibit :) fuck it, it sound more like a longdrink than something cryptic :-P
"Yea, bartended I want another kibibit on the rocks!"
A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team
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