Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
From: Robert Fout (rfout@mahi.damien.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 01 2000 - 20:58:46 MST
The machine came with 128 MB, and i can open it up and look at the DIMMS
(plus, a computer has to have RAM in combos of 2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512 MB
etc)
MacOS shows the computer as having 128 MB
Dan.. any clue as to my situation?
Bob
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Robert Fout
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> From: Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 22:53:21 -0500
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' question
>
> 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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