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> Which floppy disk? IBM 53FD, 1977. Apparently the "idiocy" started really early… > All other storage uses 1024. What "all" other? Only RAM. > A kilobit o

by creshal 11y ago

> Which floppy disk? IBM 53FD, 1977. Apparently the "idiocy" started really early… > All other storage uses 1024. What "all" other? Only RAM. > A kilobit of data already does not correspond to a power of ten byte value. That's not the problem of the SI prefixes, which are used for all units. IT does not operate in a vacuum. > If you want metric byte storage sizes Bullshit, nobody wants that. That's what IEC binary prefixes are for.

kazinator 11y ago
What quantity has two SI units such that one is 8 times the other, and are kilo-, mega-, etc used for both?
- creshal 11y ago
  Neither bit nor byte are SI units. What, exactly, is the problem with using IEC binary prefixes for multiples of 1024?