[ros-dev] r46904 reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/miarm.h

[ShadowFlare]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM, breakoutbox <breakoutbox at web.de> wrote:

> ShadowFlare wrote:
>
>> Both sides have their own historical reasons for keeping things the way
>> they are.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb at googlemail.com<mailto:
>> ajfweb at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard
>>    Disk manufacturers have tried to make them wrong in this case.
>>
>>
> I didn't talk about history.
>
> But if You like :: let's look into history. One day in ...
>
> ".. December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the
> leading international organization for worldwide standardization in
> electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and
> symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data
> processing and data transmission. The prefixes are as follows .."
> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>
> ... and since 1998 things changed.
>

Sorry, thought you were talking about the size and not the name.  Thanks for
clarifying.
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