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 Re: strtonum(3) in FreeBSD? On Apr 16, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > 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. That's right, they are not. If they were you were not having this useless discussion this list. > >> 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. blah blah blah > > (I also wondered why 16'777'216 colours are 16 million colours... oh > well.) > > //mirabile > -- >> 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      |
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