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A kB by anyother name...
Authored by: carsten on Apr 10, '03 01:24:33PM

As memory and hard drives are becoming increasingly larger, I expect the computer industry will eventually switch from binary size notation (i.e. 1024) to metric (1000), as the disparity bewteen an actual count of bytes represented by each notation increases with ever-greater size measurements.

For now it seems, the only ones who consistently use metric byte notation are hard-drive manufaturers.

Seriously, until such time as hard drives and memory size grow so large that the computer industry is forced to switch over from binary byte notion to metric byte notation, I suggest a more profitable expenditure of "metrification" efforts would be to encourage the general adoption of S.I. units everywere in North America, as most of the world already employs.

Particularly the lack of use of A4 paper bothers me personally, the infinite benefits of metric paper sizes seem to be lost on us Canadians (we primarily use standard metric but also use Imperial units for many things) as well as our American friends. See ISO paper

:)
Cheers,
Carsten

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