On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Megan wrote:
> I think the problem with '1.44 Mb' is that IBM chose to refer to
> the exact number of bytes without using the power-of-two term
> properly.
>
> For example... on pdp-11s, the virtual address space is always
> referred to as 64 Kb... but the actual max (byte) address is
> 65535. If we were to follow what it appears IBM did, we would
> have been referring to 65.5 Kb.
No, a megabyte is not a power of two number. A megabyte = 1,000,000
bytes. So 1.44 megabytes = 1.44 million bytes = roughly 1,440,000 bytes.
So 1.44MB disk drive is not a misnomer.
I've forgotten what the original rant was about but I can't see the
problem.
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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