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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 10:33:17 -0800 (PST)
From: Ted Unangst <tedu@stanford.edu>
To: Thomas Hood <jdthood@mail.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in
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On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Thomas Hood wrote:

> 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.

That will never work.  So he bought 1 KB.  He just got 1024 bytes, but
only paid for 1000 bytes.  What a deal.


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