> }  * So, you're going to stand up in front of 12 people chosen from the population
> }  * at large and inform them that "million" means 1,048,576 instead of 1,000,000?
> 
> I can hardly wait for SIMM makers to start advertising 4Mx9 SIMMs holding
> 4.7 MB.

I'm not sure this isn't already done.  My machine at work runs through
it's power-on memory check and tell me my 16M are 16,000k.  What happend
to the other 384K?

This also reminds of a catalog I've received.  In a box with a background
color different than the rest of the page, it lists an NEC Versa V laptop
computer with 4M standard and 20M max.  In the same box it lists memory
upgrades for it in the 4M, 8M, 16M and 32M sizes.  (This was a CDW catalog.)

It's really no wonder why computers confuse so many people.

jf
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John Franklin
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