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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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To: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Configure.help editorial policy
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On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:10:33AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> > And disks by the GB where GB == 1000^3 so I don't see any problem in
> > moving from KB to KiB and friends ESPECIALLY AS THEY ARE STANDARDIZED
> > BEYOND THE KERNEL and nothing will change this.
>
> If you think GB == 1000^3, then please go "correct" all the DRAM
> manufacturers out in the world.  They just sent me 1GB of ram and
> it's coming up as 1073741824 bytes.  Please help!  They have no
> option for GiB!!!

Also, a GB of disk space really is 2^10 * 10^6 ...

Better make sure we get it consistent ... *runs like hell*

Rik
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