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From: Sellam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Mar 17 10:56:55 1999

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Derek Peschel wrote:

> Let us know what you find out. I hope that "kilobyte" won't become one of
> those words that instantly marks their users as classic-computer freaks.
> I know jargon changes, but I don't want it to change in this case.

Well, here's a simple solution: anything suffixed with "byte", ie.
kilobyte, megabyte, gigabyte, terrabyte...is automatically a base-2 value.

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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