2001-12-22 16:40:43

by Thomas Hood

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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in

Stephen Satchell wrote:
> Unless you can get the business community to cry
> out for the change (so that BSD, what's left of BeOS,
> and Microsoft make the change) this is a Bad Idea(tm).

The thing to do is to tell the pointy-haired boss that
without the 'i' he is being shortchanged 2.5% of the
RAM he's paying for.

If that doesn't work, tell him the 'i' has always been
there between the K and the B. Couldn't he see it?
He must need new reading glasses.