of course, this was the industry that listed unformatted capacity. but the point of the original poster remains. they used standard nomenclature (Gb binary) and advertised using (Gb decimal) - quite deliberately. some years later the GiB idea came up.
there are of course other examples of widely understood words getting corrupted. million (10^6), billion (10^12) . oh, i mean billion (10^9) as the meaning has changed. i can remember distinct confusion when younger when people had to specify "american billion". (a popular opinion was that americans with 1000 millions wanted to be billionaires, so the word meaning was corrupted because an english billion was really hard to get to)
polymorphic viruses did this many many years ago. worms on the other hand, and the recent VB junk presumably are relearning what the ASM writers thought up all that time ago.
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of course, this was the industry that listed unformatted capacity. but the point of the original poster remains. they used standard nomenclature (Gb binary) and advertised using (Gb decimal) - quite deliberately. some years later the GiB idea came up.
there are of course other examples of widely understood words getting corrupted. million (10^6), billion (10^12) . oh, i mean billion (10^9) as the meaning has changed. i can remember distinct confusion when younger when people had to specify "american billion". (a popular opinion was that americans with 1000 millions wanted to be billionaires, so the word meaning was corrupted because an english billion was really hard to get to)
polymorphic viruses did this many many years ago. worms on the other hand, and the recent VB junk presumably are relearning what the ASM writers thought up all that time ago.