On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:50:05PM -0500, Alex wrote:
> No; nerds have always meant 2^20 bytes when they said "megabyte", and
> marketers have always meant 10^6.

My take on this has always been "I'll be happy for the disk
manufacturers to say that a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes when they
also specify that a byte is 10 bits."

(do the arithmetic :)

--
Dan.