Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Dennis Murphy (dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 06:35:24 MST
It depends.
If you know anything about computers, then yes, a MB is a MB is a MB. But if
you're a marketing guru, then a MB is 1,000,000 bytes, because you can make a
hard disk look "bigger" that way.
An 8.4 "gig" hard disk really isn't. It's 8,400,000,000 bytes. That's
significantly less than 8.4GB, but from a marketing perspective, it's 8.4GB.
It's always those damn marketing folks getting in the way! :-)
--- Dennis Murphy Montclair State University College of Science & Mathematics SCInet Support & Development Group dmurphy@leguin.montclair.edu (973)655-5414On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Robert Fout wrote:
> Wouldn't it seem odd to have two different definitions of MB... anyone here > have some serious college degrees in computer science? I'm pretty sure that > a MB is a MB is a MB (2^20 or 1024^2)
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