Re: ifconfig curiosity
Paul 'Baloo' Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:
>
>> > uhm, what are "MiB"'s?
>>
>> One of the more stupid sounding standards to be foisted on the public.
>
> That's great. How bout a helpful answer?
It's the IEC name for 1024x1024 bytes, also known as mebibytes.
Of course, my answer _was_ helpful... you'll find that tossing "MiB
standard" into google will get you the right answer.
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