Compact flash capacity

Rob

In other words, marketing MB = 1,000,000 bytes, real MB = 1024 * 1024 bytes.

Mike

Actually 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes, 1 MiB = 1,048,576 bytes. See

Regards,

-=Dave

kilo = k (lower case)

so 1kB = 1000 bytes 1 kiB = 1024 bytes

Regards Anton

bytes.

Noone is using kiB...

Also, is there anyone caring if a hard disk contains

-- Best Regards Ulf Samuelsson snipped-for-privacy@a-t-m-e-l.com This is my personal opinion which may (or may not) be shared by my employer Atmel Nordic AB

The difference is over 7% so yes plenty of people should care. The disk manufacturers sales departments care which is why they universally use the more flattering definition of GB.

Back in the late 1980's I worked for a company that counted IBM semiconductor fabs as a customer. A colleague went to one of their sites (East Fishkill or Essex Junction, IIRC), and saw a sign posted in a cleanroom (visible from the non-cleanroom touring area) that said

"1,000,000 bit DRAM"

I never learned for sure if the sign was correct just some marketroids incorrect transcription of "one megabit."

The big problem with the IEC binary prefixes is that nobody actually uses them (myself included), except in Usenet posts such as these.

Heck an American pint isn't even the same thing as an English (Imperial) pint...

I feel cheated. My new development system is supposed to have a 40 GB hard drive. And it does. Problem is, that's only 37.25 GiB...

Regards,

-=Dave

So 1KB = 1000 bytes?

Mike Harding

Not me.

These are binary electronic terms - trying to make them decimal is plain silly.

I don't want to try and design 9.87365291 address lines to service a 1000 byte memory.

Mike Harding

I once wrote a cross-assembler for a non-IBM computer with 1000 words of memory (addresses 0...999) and IIRC each word contained 12 (BCD) digits, thus the total memory capacity was 48,000 bits. That would be

Paul