Re: ifconfig curiosity
On Fri, 2001-12-07 at 12:44, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote:
> 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?
A MiB is a mibibyte, and a KiB is a kibibyte. MiB == 2^20 bytes, KiB ==
2^10 bytes. By contrast, a MB, or megabyte, == 10^6 bytes and a KB, or
kilobyte, == 10^3 bytes. This means that megabyte is now consistent
with mega-anything-else, 10^6.
The mibi and kibi prefixes recently became international standards.
-jwb
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