Re: [PATCH] git-fetch: more terse fetch output

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On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> Yes, to me, 1MB is 1024 KB.  Always been, until those idiotic hard disk 
> manufacturers decided to redefine the common interpretation of what 
> everyone else used to consider what a MB is just to boost their 
> marketing claims.

Actually, they just lost even that in a lawsuit (yeah, they "settled").

The fact is, 1MB = 1024kB = 1048576 bytes.

Anybody who claims anything else is a lying piece of pondscum, trying to 
just fool people into paying more for less.

Which is why you should *not* use MiB and KiB - it only validates the 
pondscum.

			Linus
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