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

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:58:42 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@...lub.uwaterloo.ca>
cc:	Eduard Bloch <edi@....de>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>,
	Tony Foiani <tkil@...ye.com>,
	Leon Woestenberg <leon.woestenberg@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)


On Jan 22 2007 10:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing
>> to accept new terms? For my taste, kib and mib are even easier to
>> speech, easier than {KiLoBytE} resp. {MeGaBytE} or KaaaBe / eMmmBe.
>
>There is too much legacy code and systems around for it to ever be
>nonambiguous.  It is too late to fix it, and the units that this
>"standard" came up with just sound too stupid to be taken seriously.

For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and
K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.

>You also don't pronounce units just because it looks like you can.  So
>KiB is not easier than KB.  Heck most people in speach wouild just call
>them Ks (kays or something like that).  And MBs just become Megs.  Same

kegs perhaps? :)


	-`J'
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