On Thursday 15 March 2007 12:37, Monty J. Harder wrote:
Nothing false about it. It's the inevitable result of using an established term to mean something different.
"using an established term to mean something different" is dishonest/false. :p
The SI prefix 'M' means 10^6, not 2^20.
I don't see any legitimacy to a claim over a single-letter abbreviation. Can I claim 'L' and prevent anyone from making any abbreviation beginning with that letter? :)
Memory is almost always listed using the binary terminology, which would be written MiB according to the most popular disambiguation scheme.
Only SI proponents use MiB from what I've seen.
HD manufacturers all use the SI meaning, because it allows them to advertise a larger number of MB.
Exactly. False advertising.
A third definition of 'MB' is that used by floppy drives, 10^3 x 2^10, or 2000 sectors of 512 bytes. A '1.44 MB' floppy has 2880 sectors.
IIRC, that was an accident.