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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
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Subject: Re: Minor Hard Disk Question...
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Date: 30 May 91 18:29:00 GMT
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In article <17795@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM>, dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek) writes:
|> 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.

Megabyte never meant anything but 2^20 bytes in the computing
world. If IBM were really doing this, they were indulging
in the usual IBM jargon engineering at best, misleading
advertizing at worst.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu