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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.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Silence is the only virtue you have left.



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