[mythtv-users] What to call things
Yan Seiner
yan at seiner.com
Sat Dec 8 02:06:00 UTC 2007
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:23:58PM -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>> Or, maybe we should just have them label storage capacity in bytes so
>> it's unambiguous. Oh, wait! That won't work because byte has
>> historically been used to refer to various amounts of data ranging from
>> 5 to 12 bits. So, if someone bought a 750,156,374,016 byte disk*, they
>> may be disappointed to find out it has only 6,001,250,992,128 bits (per
>> the 8-bit byte) rather than 7,501,563,740,160 bits (as it would using a
>> 10-bit byte, a.k.a., a "deckle") but others may be delighted to find it
>> has more than 3,750,781,870,080 bytes (as it would using a 5-bit byte,
>> a.k.a. a "nickle").
>>
>
> Well, if you want to Stretch Armstrong a point, I guess, Mike. :-)
>
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/byte.html
>
> says that the 8-bit form was in *late 1956*, and that that sizing was
> promulgated as a standard *by the IBM-360*.
>
Yabut....
I was revelling in the thought that my 1.5 terabyte array just went to 3
teranybbles....
Ya know, maybe we can patent the first 2 teranybble drive and retire
rich....
:-)
--Yan
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