> everything in computer-land was base-2 and things were simple This has never been true though. Processors have never been "kibihertz". Nor busses, nor mode

> everything in computer-land was base-2 and things were simple This has never been true though. Processors have never been "kibihertz". Nor busses, nor modems. Just ram. The board I'm building at the moment has ram specified as 10ns. That's 10x10^-9 seconds, not 10x2^-20 seconds. Which sounds silly to have to even say, but that's how I feel every time someone wants to pretend that just because something was commonly held when they were at school, does not mean it fits today's standards. And harddrives, the one everyone obsessed about because their OS incorrectly shows them base2. No. No they weren't. The famous pictures of an IBM305 being lifted out of a plane. That's a 5Mb drive. It holds 5 million characters. 5,000,000 characters. It's embarrassing enough that this fallacy is older than half our readers. It's even more embarrassing that it was never true in the first place.