You know, when I studied Comp Sci and got my degree, far too many moons ago... I was taught by "those who know all" that a nibble is 4 bits, a byte (B) is 8 bits, a word is two bytes, a long word (DWORD) is 8 bytes, a kilobyte (K) was 1024 Bytes, a megabyte (M) was 1024 kilobytes, and a gigabyte was 1024 megabytes.
Seems to me, and this has tormented me for years, that the false equations of 1M=1000K and 1K=1000B didn't start showing up until the computer-illiterate joined the Internet community (AKA AOL users and the like).
Why create a new term for something that already was estabished as correct long ago?
I'm confused, but that's not too surprising since I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!
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LOL I think I done messed up there... I think a word is 4 bytes, not 2 as I previously spouted. Must be the medication...
You know, when I studied Comp Sci and got my degree, far too many moons ago... I was taught by "those who know all" that a nibble is 4 bits, a byte (B) is 8 bits, a word is two bytes, a long word (DWORD) is 8 bytes, a kilobyte (K) was 1024 Bytes, a megabyte (M) was 1024 kilobytes, and a gigabyte was 1024 megabytes. Seems to me, and this has tormented me for years, that the false equations of 1M=1000K and 1K=1000B didn't start showing up until the computer-illiterate joined the Internet community (AKA AOL users and the like). Why create a new term for something that already was estabished as correct long ago? I'm confused, but that's not too surprising since I live in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER!