On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> IF you had 1,000,000 bytes per "Megabyte" (like Sam), then
> 1474560/1000000 => 1.474560 Megabytes, ABOUT 1.47, NOT 1.44!
> AND, the last time you bought a "Megabyte of memory", you got 1.048576 Meg!
> [Sam: what books WOULD you consider to be "authoritative"? Mmmmm PANCAKES!]
They sure are yummy!!!
I see your point now. Can I take my foot out of my mouth?
> OB_10-year: for 20 years we struggled with companies that claimed that
> THEIR computer was better than the competition, because THEIRs had 65.5K
> of RAM. Now that we've finally won the battle of how many bytes in a
> "Kilobyte", we are LOSING the battle of how many bytes are in a "Megabyte".
Well by golly we must reclaim the megabyte by boycotting companies that
abuse it like that horrid IBM!!
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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