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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Minor Hard Disk Question...
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Date: 30 May 91 15:25:58 GMT
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In article <1991May27.081538.9810@marlin.jcu.edu.au> chma@marlin.jcu.edu.au (Michael Antolovich) writes:
>Hi,
>   Something I noticed recently :-  I reformatted my Quantum 105 (3rd
>party so I fiddled with Apple's formatter :-).  Anyway I was just
>wondering why my 105Meg HD formats to 102Meg (Max partition size) then
>shows ~100,000K fress space when empty under System 6.0.7 and then
>~98Meg under System 7.0 (yes it goes back to 100,000K when I go back to
>6.0.7).  I more or less understand the reduction caused by formatting,
>etc, but why the diff between Sys 7.0 and 6.0.7 ?  It's a pity to 'lose'
>the 7 Megs I could have used to for puting System 7.0 on :-).
>	Michael.

I think they've changed the definition.  The "old" megabytes were
1,000,000 bytes.  The new ones are 1,048,576 (2^20) bytes.

A few years back IBM managed a few extra sales because their machines
sported 65K of memory, while the competition's machines only had 64K.
I think Apple made a PR mistake on this one.

-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)  I don't speak for my employer. --
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