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Yes, 2**10 times this, yes. Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a
by kstrauser 9mo ago
Yes, 2**10 times this, yes.
Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.
- ralferoo 9mo agoThey should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.
- nacozarina 9mo agoyou'll eat your kibbles & bits and like it !
- mmphosis 9mo agoThe Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units "the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64
- kstrauser 9mo agoIt has 64 kilobytes. The definition of kilobyte and megabyte (and I presume gigabyte, among people who could afford caring about them) were universally agreed to be binary.