Re: 'free' and 'top' question


Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
From: Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:53:21 MST


At 9:41 PM -0600 3/1/00, Robert Fout wrote:
>but free and top on MKL DR3 show it correct, but both (the newer) YDL 1.1
>and RHL 6.1 show it 'incorrect'. I'm pretty sure (99.999%) that a MB
>(megabyte) [not Mb (megabit)] is 1024^2 bytes. that's just the standard,
>since 1024 is a binary number 2^10

Yes, but marketeers generally like to use 1000*1000, because that
means the customer gets "more" disk (it happens there, too) or RAM.
Who told you you had 128 Mb?

>
>Bob
>---------------------------------------
>"The knack to flying is learning how to
>throw yourself at the ground and miss."
>

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Paul Schinder
schinder@pobox.com



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