On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:37:29PM +0300, Hannu Krosing wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 08:20 -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > There is no arguing that MB != Mb;
>
> The whole point of this discussion is, that mostly people expect
> MB == Mb = mb == mB, especially if they see weird constructs like kB
> used (k for Kilo, or actually Kibi).
Note that in the networked computer world, MB and Mb are
importantly different. The latter is relevant for the speed of your
network interface, for instance. People often get this wrong when
speaking carelessly, but a mistake of this sort is a serious one,
given the orders of magnitude difference.
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