Megabyte vs Mebibyte (was Re: Language and English)

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sat Jan 5 13:50:47 2002

On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:

> > They should coin a new term for a fake Megabyte (i.e.
> > something other than 1024 ^ 2). Call it a "Maybebyte".
> > That wasn't funny.
>
> Yes it was.
> And I am now going to use that in some of my classes, when I explain what
> a Megabyte is.

Yah! I coined a new term.

You heard it here first ;)

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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