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- From: duggan@cc.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan)
- Subject: Re: The maxtor 213 meg drive is NOT 213 megs!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.163552.3703@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Reply-To: duggan@cc.gatech.edu (Rick Duggan)
- Organization: College of Computing
- References: <s106275.725140761@ee.tut.fi> <1992Dec24.103209.21401@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <BzrLA1.D4C@cs.vu.nl>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 16:35:52 GMT
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- lew@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Kevin A. Lew) writes:
-
- >>>213,000,000 is not 213 megs (213 megs=213*1024*1024)
-
- >213,000,000 bytes *IS* 213 Megabytes. MS-DOS lists the free space
- >you have on your hard drive in bytes. Since MEGA = 10^6,
- >213 Megabytes is 213,000,000 bytes. In addition, 1 kilobyte is not
- >1,024 bytes. It is 1,000 bytes. I just studied this stuff in
- >a communication networks course and when I was studying for the CS GRE..
-
- >Hope this clarifies things..
-
- Well, the communication people (computer networking) use the
- 1000 convention. For gigabit networks, they mean 10^9
- (1 billion=1000000000) bits. However, a kilobyte *is* 1024
- bytes. They use a different convention than people who design
- memory. Think about it: your pc with 640K has 655360 bytes,
- not 640000 bytes.
-
- And all this talk of UNformatted capacity is driving me nuts. Exactly
- how much data can you store on an UNformatted drive? Sound like
- 0 bytes to me :-). If you gotta format it to use it...
-
- -rick
-
-
- "Random acts of violence just don't do it for me anymore. Call it
- maturity. Bang! Bang! Heh, heh." - Cactus Jack, WCW Saturday Night 07/04/92
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