[src/trunk]: src/share/man/man7 Note also common bit rates.

[jruoho <jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/9d6fb42b07b1
branches:  trunk
changeset: 768001:9d6fb42b07b1
user:      jruoho <jruoho%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Sat Aug 06 11:07:18 2011 +0000

description:
Note also common bit rates.

diffstat:

 share/man/man7/orders.7 |  20 ++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diffs (41 lines):

diff -r 2471cddd59db -r 9d6fb42b07b1 share/man/man7/orders.7
--- a/share/man/man7/orders.7   Sat Aug 06 11:04:25 2011 +0000
+++ b/share/man/man7/orders.7   Sat Aug 06 11:07:18 2011 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: orders.7,v 1.5 2010/12/14 13:32:14 jruoho Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: orders.7,v 1.6 2011/08/06 11:07:18 jruoho Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2010 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\" ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
 .\" POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
 .\"
-.Dd December 14, 2010
+.Dd August 6, 2011
 .Dt ORDERS 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -48,6 +48,22 @@
 .It Yottabyte Ta YB Ta 2^80 Ta 10^24
 .El
 .Pp
+The following table lists common bit rates as a power of ten.
+.Bl -column -offset 2n \
+"Megabit per second" "Prefix" "Bit per second" "Byte per second"
+.It Sy Name Ta Sy Prefix Ta Sy Bit per second Ta Sy Byte per second
+.It Bit per second Ta bit/s Ta 1 Ta 0.125
+.It Byte per second Ta B/s Ta 8 Ta 1
+.It Kilobit per second Ta kbit/s Ta 10^3 Ta 125
+.It Kilobyte per second Ta kB/s Ta 8 * 10^3 Ta 1000
+.It Megabit per second Ta Mbit/s Ta 10^6 Ta 125000
+.It Megabyte per second Ta MB/s Ta 8 * 10^6 Ta 1000000
+.It Gigabit per second Ta Gbit/s Ta 10^9 Ta 125000000
+.It Gigabyte per second Ta GB/s Ta 8 * 10^9 Ta 1000000000
+.It Terabit per second Ta Tbit/s Ta 10^12 Ta 125000000000
+.It Terabyte per second Ta TB/s Ta 8 * 10^12 Ta 1000000000000
+.El
+.Pp
 The following table lists common orders of magnitude as a power of ten.
 .Bl -column -offset 2n \
 "Septillionth" "Order" "Prefix" "Symbol" "Decimal"