söndag 04 november 2007 skrev David Brown: > On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 06:03:14PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > >I wonder if 700MB CD-ROM and 4.7GB DVD-R are also in decimal > >bytes. I am too lazy to check ;-) > > Of course. A certain magneto optical manufacturer created a 605MB drive, > which they marked as 640MB, trying to make it sound like it had the same > capacity as a CD. Even with 1,000 bytes 634,388,480 is quite a stretch to > call 640MB. I never found the footnote "____ defines megabyte to be 991232 > bytes". They may have used the term "unformatted" capacity. -- robin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
