[tech] X2580A's in an Ultra Enterprise 6000

[Michal Gornisiewicz]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:58:57PM +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
> In a partially related topic, I will be instigating the cutting off of
> the nads of anyone who uses the acronyms GiB, MiB, KiB or anything
> else. 

These acronyms have been an IEC standard for 6 years now and are
supported by the IEEE. Get with the times and castrate yourself instead!

 
> The entire computing industry got on quite well knowing what GB, MB, KB
> et al meant until some hard drive marketoid decided that using factors
> of 1000 made their drive sizes look bigger.

By supporting the (incorrect) use of the metric prefixes you're just
playing right into your HDD marketdroids' hands who can continue to
"pretend" their devices are larger than they are.


Mg