Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 23 2007 02:04, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>Andreas Schwab <schwab@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> But other than the sector size there is no natural power of 2 connected to
>> disk size.  A disk can have any odd number of sectors.
>
>But the manufacturers don't count in sectors.
>
>It should be consistent, though. "How many GB of disk space do you
>need to store 2 GB of USB flash, and how many to store 2 GB RAM image"?

Here's the marketing gap a company could jump in:
  "first to count in real GB"


	-`J'
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