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From: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 06:53:38 -0700
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On Mar 18, 2002  11:36 -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> According to the standards, where capitalization is used:
> 	(1) For a proper name.
> 	(2) To differentiate between otherwise identical symbols.
> 
> "KB" would mean:
> 
> 	Kirchoff-Bell
> 
> It needs to be:
> 
> 	"kb" to mean kilobyte.

Argh.  Not this thread again. "kb" is kilo _bits_ not kilo _bytes_.

Cheers, Andreas
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Andreas Dilger  \ "If a man ate a pound of pasta and a pound of antipasto,
                 \  would they cancel out, leaving him still hungry?"
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