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KiB, MiB, GiB faggotry

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-12 10:34

And now standards organizations want us to use those GAY prefixes that sound faggish. But we EXPERT PROGRAMMERS refuse and resist, and keep using the old-style KB, MB and GB prefixes meaning powers of 1024, as it should be. Choose your side, /prog/. Are you for faggotry or expertise?

Name: Anonymous 2008-03-12 14:51

>>11
Also Kw, Mw, etc. The math is easy, too. On x86 machines a word is 16 bits, so just divide your obsolete measurements by two.

Granted, hard drive manufacturers wouldn't like it. They'd have to go back to advertising Gigas instead of Teras for the time being.

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