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From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)
Date: 22 Jan 2007 09:49:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ps97h2f2.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKEENPBAAC.davids@webmaster.com>
>>>>> "DS" == David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:
DS> If you are right, a "512MB" RAM stick is mislabelled and is more
DS> correctly labelled as "536.8MB". (With 512MiB being equally
DS> correct.)
DS> Isn't that obviously not just wrong but borderline crazy?
No. It is not obvious to me what is wrong with that. RAM is the only
thing using binary units, everything else is decimal. It is about time
that RAM switched too.
/Benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-22 8:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-20 8:08 Michał Kudła
2007-01-20 10:29 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-20 18:07 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-20 22:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-21 0:07 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-21 21:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 6:45 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 8:25 ` Roland Kuhn
2007-01-22 15:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-21 7:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 20:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-01-21 20:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-01-21 17:04 ` Leon Woestenberg
2007-01-21 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-01-22 8:49 ` Benny Amorsen [this message]
2007-01-27 15:06 ` Andries Brouwer
[not found] <7FsPf-51s-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <7FxlV-3sb-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <7FyUF-5XD-21@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-01-21 10:40 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-21 11:10 ` Eduard Bloch
2007-01-21 22:08 ` Stefan Richter
2007-01-22 15:53 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 16:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 18:36 ` Alan
2007-01-22 19:24 ` Tony Foiani
2007-01-22 22:26 ` Bodo Eggert
2007-01-22 20:44 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:17 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-01-22 20:43 ` Lennart Sorensen
2007-01-22 21:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-21 14:45 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-01-21 15:06 ` Heikki Orsila
2007-01-21 21:27 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-22 1:56 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-22 10:39 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2007-01-22 10:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 1:04 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-01-23 1:45 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-01-23 9:23 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-01-23 13:14 ` Krzysztof Halasa
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