On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM, breakoutbox <breakoutbox@web.de> wrote:

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@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.

Sorry, thought you were talking about the size and not the name.  Thanks for clarifying.