"Buck Savage" <hhacker_at_gte.net> wrote:
>>Heck - my home PC has 128 Mb... which shows up through the
>>POST as 130nnn (I forget the last three digits).
>
>128 * 1024 =3D 131072
>
>Hence, if your display is
>
>131072K
>
>then your display is accurate.
And it isn't what is displayed, though it is what I expected...
>K means 1024, and that is universally accepted by all programmers! It
>is we, the programmers of the world, who define the value of such
>symbols, and = I say, it is also our prerogrative if ensure that their
>use by lay persons is = accurate. This is not any different than du Pont
>protecting the meaning of the = name teflon, nor Xerox the meaning of the
>name Xerox.
>
>If this is not the display, then perhaps it is
>
>(128 * 1024) - (1024 - 640) =3D 130688
This looks more like it, and in fact is what I realized last night
as I was writing a reply on this topic... so I did finally figure
it out...
Megan Gentry
Former RT-11 Developer
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Received on Sat Jan 23 1999 - 08:34:16 GMT