Re: GB vs. MB

Keith Rohrer (rohrer@uiuc.edu)
Tue, 3 Dec 1996 19:39:04 -0600 (CST)


> For crying out loud, if we're goping to make this big a deal over a
> convension, let's report the size in cylinders, sectors, and heads. ;)
No, that's always been a lie anyway for SCSI devices, and has been a lie for
EIDE devices for ages now. blocks-and-hardware-blocksize, kb/ko, or power-of-
two units are fine by me, as are combinations of the above... This is
computers, not the metric system.

Keith (voting 2^10n, and followups to /dev/null...)