[Coco] Totally OT: Terabit memory device

[KnudsenMJ at aol.com]

In a message dated 7/17/04 7:30:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rtaylor at bayou.com writes:

> Oh brother.  Tell me it's not true.  Are there any companies actually 
>  trying to use the term "terabit" to possibly throw off the unfortunate of 
>  the computer product consumers into thinking they're getting a 
>  terabyte-sized drive? 

Well, it's only a factor of 8.  Wait three years and it will be true :-)

> After all, think of all the companies that saved 
>  millions by redefining the term "gigabyte" into meaning "one billion 
>  bytes", which is not true at all. 

Really?  One gigahertz is a billion cycles/second.
Actually, a gigabyte is about 1.05 billion bytes as human reckon things.

> But by legally stating in fine print 
>  what the company's definition of gigabyte means, it's not really false 
>  advertisement.

I've seen those fine prints, but their real kicker is the "formatted size", 
which is always less for hard drivers or floppies.  --Mike K.