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From: geoff@ugc.uucp (Geoff Coleman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: Kbytes: Real memory vs. Hard disk space
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.145117.18514@ugc.uucp>
Date: 21 Jun 91 14:51:17 GMT
References: <1991Jun20.122420.10372@uvm.edu> <862@rufus.UUCP>
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In article <862@rufus.UUCP> drake@drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:
>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).

	So nice of IBM to use a couple of different definitions for the same 
term. I guess it makes their disks look larger to the unknowing. What I find
really amusing is that du and df don't add up because du appears to return 
number of blocks in 1024 byte blocks not in 1000 byte blocks.



Geoff Coleman