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From: phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Exabytes ....
Message-ID: <1991May25.043722.16845@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 25 May 91 04:37:22 GMT
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hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com writes:

>Whilst we use their excellent tape drives all over the place, am I the only
>person who's irritated by the name "exabyte", which is in fact 1000 terabytes,
>and not the name of a sort of tape drive? Is this "truth in advertising" since
>we'd need about 500,000 of them to make a *real* terabyte?

>Never mind. It's Friday night and I've been in meetings all day ....

You are not the only one.  Though that should be 500 for a terabyte and
500,000 for a real exabyte.

They probably chose NOT to use "Terabyte" because people would have dubbed
them "Terrible".
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