[Coco] kibibyte

[Frank Pittel]

I think a big part of the problem with getting people to use the
prefixes, kibibyte, mibibyte and gibibyte is that they sound silly
to say, and no one else in the industry uses the terms. Maybe if
harddrive and flash memory vendors started using them it might start
to catch on. Unless that happens the prefixes are a good idea destined
to go the way of esperanto.

My coco has runs off of a 256mibibyte CF card and is connected to a
1gibibyte jaz drive, a 120mibibyte ls-120 drive and at up to four
100megabyte disk images on my fileserver connected via drivewire!! :-)

Frank


On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 08:31:24AM -0400, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> I, for one, have more than heard about the IEC and it has been so for years.
> Been heavily involved in ISO efforts and worked closely with the ITU and
> IEEE while working in Mexico with matters that related to the telephone
> company. Probably all these terms could sound 'Esperanto' to some but
> believe me they are not.
> 
> I agree with the wikipedia entry (hence the IEC standard): the ambiguity
> with which the term kilobyte has been used in the past has created a rift on
> the appreciation of the real capacity of today's mass storage media... back
> in the days of the CoCo (to put things in topic!) all this really didn't
> matter... and still doesn't, that's part of the the charming beauty of such
> vintage technology  :-)
> 
> 
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
> 
> 
> On 8/15/07, Jim Hickle <jlhickle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > "Kibibytes"  sounds like a brand of dog food.  Has anyone ever even heard
> > of the  "International Electrotechnical Commission"?  Are they the same
> > people who wanted us all to speak Esperanto back in the '60's ?
> 
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