Subject: Re: Laptop locks up hard in X
To: Andy Ball <andy.ball@earthlink.net>
From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/27/2003 20:38:57
>
> Assume the following definitions for anything I write where
> I don't explicitly define otherwise...
>
> MB = Megabit = 1,000,000 bits.
> Mb = Megabyte = 1,000,000 bytes.
> (unless I'm talking about memory, where "16Mb"
> probably implies 2^24 bytes. ;-)
> Kb = Kilobyte = 1,024 bytes (note the upper-case K).
> kB = kilobit = 1,000 bits.
really i though (and still think, even i'm sure) B is byte and b is bit.
something got changed in that standards last years?