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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!dtix!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!wam.umd.edu!qian
  2. From: pc@umd.edu
  3. Newsgroups: comp.benchmarks
  4. Subject: Disk storage size?
  5. Message-ID: <0001@umd.edu>
  6. Date: 18 Aug 92 19:14:21 GMT
  7. Sender: usenet@wam.umd.edu (USENET News system)
  8. Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
  9. Organization: UM
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  11. Originator: qian@rac2.wam.umd.edu
  12. Nntp-Posting-Host: rac2.wam.umd.edu
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  16. When people talk about 200MB disk, do they mean  200x1,000,000 byte, or
  17. 200x1024x1024 ?  When talk about the RAM, people seems use 1k=1024, but
  18. when go to disk, it is metric. Is this always the case?
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