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> Every computer architecture in production addresses memory in the powers of two. What does it mean to "address memory in powers of two" ? There are certainly
by School-Cotton 2y ago
> Every computer architecture in production addresses memory in the powers of two.
What does it mean to "address memory in powers of two" ? There are certainly machines with non-power-of-two memory quantities; 96 GiB is common for example.
> The whole klownbyte change was pushed through by hard drive marketers in 1990s.
The metric prefixes based on powers of 10 have been around since the 1790s.
- varjag 2y ago> What does it mean to "address memory in powers of two" ? There are certainly machines with non-power-of-two memory quantities; 96 GiB is common for example. I challenge you to show me any SKU from any memory manufacturer that has a power of 10 capacity. Or a CPU whose address space is a power of 10. This is an unavoidable artefact of using a binary address bus. > The metric prefixes based on powers of 10 have been around since the 1790s. And Babylonians used power of 60, what gives?