> Possibly, legislation could help: make it unlawful for a storage device which holds 100000000000 bytes to be called a gigabyte device.
Even tapes, which along with every other "piece of string" device, have been base10 since before this cp/m / *dos mistake existed?
Why should they now be forced to be wrong?
(also, be careful what you ask for. If this were to be legislated, it'd be perfectly logical for them to fall inline with NIST - who don't agree with you on this one)
Even tapes, which along with every other "piece of string" device, have been base10 since before this cp/m / *dos mistake existed?
Why should they now be forced to be wrong?
(also, be careful what you ask for. If this were to be legislated, it'd be perfectly logical for them to fall inline with NIST - who don't agree with you on this one)