Subject: Re: Largest drive sizes in MV/VS3100 machines?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/03/2002 22:20:18
>> Only disk manufacturers measure disk capacities in metric gigabytes.
> ``metric gigabytes''?  Is that a commonly used term for this? :-)

I'm trying to make it so. :)  I've sometimes used "decimal" and
"binary" as adjectives instead, but I prefer "metric gigabytes" because
then I can oppose it to "real gigabytes".

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