Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.

Mike Harrold (mharrold@cas.org)
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:50:55 -0500 (EST)

>
> > Yeah, no shit? The first time I buy 512MB of RAM and get 512000 KB
> > (aka 512000000 bytes) I am gonna be *PISSED*
>
> Have a work with your hard disk manufacturer then
>

That isn't quite so important. My kernel isn't likely to f*ck up when
a 40GB HD = 40,000,000,000. I'm sure it will die quite painfully with
RAM chips that are not powers of 2.

Regards,

/Mike
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