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MB never consistently meant MiB.
by pseudalopex 6y ago
MB never consistently meant MiB.
- dkjaudyeqooe 6y agoSince when? It was defined as such originally and stood for decades without much controversy until computers became more mainstream and self-interested parties started changing the meaning.
- lokar 6y agoDisk and networking hardware manufacturers have used base 10 for ages.
- pseudalopex 6y agoIncluding Ethernet in the 1980s. And disks in the 1970s.
- coldtea 6y ago>It was defined as such originally and stood for decades without much controversy until computers became more mainstream M (as in MB) has meant 10^6 (1,000,000) in the S.I / metric standard since the 19th century...
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoIn e.g. 1985 were there really people measuring a kilobyte as 1000 bytes? I know floppy disk capacities used base-2 measurements...
- pseudalopex 6y agoBus and line speeds always used powers of 10. Different disk formats used different conventions.[1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte#Examples https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilobyte#Examples [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte#Definitions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megabyte#Definitions
- dataflow 6y agoFloppy disks were a mix of bases 2 and 10.