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

Kai Henningsen (kaih@khms.westfalen.de)
28 Dec 2001 12:25:00 +0200


pozsy@sch.bme.hu (Pozsar Balazs) wrote on 22.12.01 in <Pine.GSO.4.30.0112221113120.2091-100000@balu>:

> Please NO NO NO NO!!
>
> Why on earth is it good to develop misunderstandings and inconsistency
> with well- and widely-known historical abbrevs?

It's not. The sooner we bury this computer-originated idiocy of using
decimal prefixes to denote binary values, the better.

You *do* remember which version has the longer history, right?

MfG Kai
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