Reiability of wrong media (was: is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

From: George Currie <g_at_kurico.com>
Date: Fri Jan 22 17:58:19 1999

> M (1) Prefix mega; 1,000,000. (2) When refering to computer storage
> capacity, 1,048,576 (1,048,576= 2 to the 20th power)
>
> Also
> Mb 1,048,576 bytes.
>
> Incidentaly, it also defines
>
> Gb 1,073,741,824 bytes (=2^30 ARD)

Just on a side note, I always thought that the proper way to state
the abbreviations were MB and GB _not_ Mb and Gb. With the
caps B meaning Byte and the little b meaning bit. So 8Mb would
be 8 MegaBits while 8MB would be 8MegaBytes, ethernet would
be 10Mbps while fast SCSI is 10MBps (slight difference).

George
Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 17:58:19 GMT