18 Apr
2010
18 Apr
'10
8:48 p.m.
ShadowFlare wrote:
Both sides have their own historical reasons for
keeping things the
way they are.
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb(a)googlemail.com
<mailto:ajfweb@googlemail.com>> wrote:
I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard
Disk manufacturers have tried to make them wrong in this case.
I didn't talk about history.
But if You like :: let's look into history. One day in ...
".. December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC),
the leading international organization for worldwide standardization in
electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and
symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data
processing and data transmission. The prefixes are as follows .."
http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
... and since 1998 things changed.
Cheers,
Peter