Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.hel

Mikael Abrahamsson (swmike@swm.pp.se)
Sat, 22 Dec 2001 08:52:42 +0100 (CET)

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001 ncw@axis.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Actually a 1 Mb/s connection is 1024000 bits/second (ie not 1000000 or
> 1048576 bits/second).

But gigabit ethernet is clocked at 1.25GHz with 8b10-encoding, meaning
you'll get literally 1.000.000.000 bits/second over that line. As far as I
know this is true for all kinds of ethernet.

Basically, it's only when it comes to memory terms that we use 1024 as a
base.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se


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