[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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