[Coco] kibibyte

[Alex Evans]

On  14  Aug 2007, at 4:31 PM, mike delyea wrote:


> Has anybody actually used the word kibibyte?  As in "I'm upgrading  

> my coco

> to 512 kibibytes this weekend".  I never heard of the word until I was

> reading about the Tandy 1000 on Wikipedia tonight.


I have run into it a few times.  I have some software which uses  
this.  I find it a little irritating.  If you use much foreign  
software you will likely run into ko (kilo-octet) (as well as Mo, Go,  
etc) as well.