Nick Holland dixit:

>There is no *accepted* standards body for governing computer
>terminology.

The SI and the IEC are not? Especially since the IEC is about
electrotechnics.

>This is a very old debate...back in the late 70's, many computers were
>advertised as having a (whopping!) 65k RAM capacity -- 65,536 bytes.

I think they said 64K or 65k (notice the difference in capitalising).
You just can't do the trick with M because m already means Milli.

(I also wondered why 16'777'216 colours are 16 million colours... oh well.)

//mirabile
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> Hi, does anyone sell openbsd stickers by themselves and not packaged
> with other products?
No, the only way I've seen them sold is for $40 with a free OpenBSD CD.
-- Haroon Khalid and Steve Shockley in gmane.os.openbsd.misc