Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM


Subject: Re: 'free' and 'top' show the wrong amount of RAM
From: Patrick Callahan (pac1@tiac.net)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 20:47:04 MST


>
> 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! :-)

exactly, and all my files fit on about 25% of one of those.

What does the exact count of bytes matter? Somebody going to cheat you out of a
byte or two?

Pat Callahan
Acton Ma USA
Programmer and Kohlrabi Rancher



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