Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Jan 22 2007 10:53, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
>> You talk for everybody, or is it just your (and only your) mind refusing
>> to accept new terms? For my taste, kib and mib are even easier to
>> speech, easier than {KiLoBytE} resp. {MeGaBytE} or KaaaBe / eMmmBe.
>
>There is too much legacy code and systems around for it to ever be
>nonambiguous.  It is too late to fix it, and the units that this
>"standard" came up with just sound too stupid to be taken seriously.

For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and
K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone.

>You also don't pronounce units just because it looks like you can.  So
>KiB is not easier than KB.  Heck most people in speach wouild just call
>them Ks (kays or something like that).  And MBs just become Megs.  Same

kegs perhaps? :)


	-`J'
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