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From: drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: Kbytes: Real memory vs. Hard disk space
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Date: 20 Jun 91 22:59:51 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.122420.10372@uvm.edu>
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Each announcement letter for a RISC System/6000 product contains the
following comment:

           NOTE: MB is 1,048,576 bytes (two to the twentieth power) when
           referring to memory; in all other cases it is 1,000,000 (ten to the
           sixth power).
                  GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes (two to the thirtieth power) when
           referring to memory; in all other cases it is 1,000,000,000 (ten to
           the ninth power).


Sam Drake / IBM Almaden Research Center 
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