I agree, I haven't come across the usage of these terms either in my career, save for people who specifically wanted to make a point. If it hadn't been in '99

I agree, I haven't come across the usage of these terms either in my career, save for people who specifically wanted to make a point. If it hadn't been in '99 already, I would say it's the language insanity which has plagued the world for the past decade. While I understand the SI argument, computers "simply" work with the powers of 2, so a magnitude of 1000 "simply" never is the native unit here and the usual SI prefixes really shouldn't be an issue and never were. It only is a convenient excuse for harddrive manufacturers ;)