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Snow Leopard apparently, which was released in 2009. Ubuntu's policies on the subject seem to be about the same age. I suppose I should've said that up until f
by TillE 13y ago
Snow Leopard apparently, which was released in 2009. Ubuntu's policies on the subject seem to be about the same age.
I suppose I should've said that up until five years ago, nearly everyone was using powers of two for file sizes. And Windows/Mac never used the correct prefixes.
- ygra 13y agohttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/06/11/9725386.aspx http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/06/11/97253... It's a tricky topic and as Raymond correctly points out, giving people a term that they don't understand probably serves little to no good purpose.
- tatref 13y agoI don't think that giving the users something that _is_ wrong is a better solution... Why not switching to GiB? Power users would understand, and others wouldn't even notice!