----- Original Message -----
From: "der Mouse" <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
To: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: Largest drive sizes in MV/VS3100 machines?


> >> 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".

I heard maybebytes a while back to refer to the numbers coming out of the
marketing dept. and I'm doing my best to make it stick.  It seems
...appropriate... somehow.

Bob