Re: Configure.help editorial policy

Benjamin LaHaise (bcrl@redhat.com)
Fri, 21 Dec 2001 15:31:36 -0500

On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:10:33AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> And disks by the GB where GB == 1000^3 so I don't see any problem in
> moving from KB to KiB and friends ESPECIALLY AS THEY ARE STANDARDIZED
> BEYOND THE KERNEL and nothing will change this.

If you think GB == 1000^3, then please go "correct" all the DRAM
manufacturers out in the world. They just sent me 1GB of ram and
it's coming up as 1073741824 bytes. Please help! They have no
option for GiB!!!

-ben

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