[Coco] kibibyte

[Fedor Steeman]

It is not very Wikipedia to use such a little used term in their articles so
I went in and changed all references to Kibibytes to Kilobytes again.

Cheers,
Fedor

On 15/08/07, mike delyea <mdelyea at gmail.com> 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.
>
> kibi- (Ki-)
>     a binary prefix meaning 2 to the 10th power = 1024. This prefix,
> adopted
> by the International Electrotechnical Commission in 1998, was supposed to
> replace kilo- for binary applications in computer science. Thus 1024 bytes
> of storage is officially a kibibyte, not a kilobyte. However, computer
> professionals generally dislike this unit (they say it sounds like a cat
> food) so the ambiguity in the size of a kilobyte persists. The prefix is a
> contraction of "kilobinary." The symbol Ki-, rather than ki-, was chosen
> for
> uniformity with the other binary prefixes (Mi-, Gi-, etc.).
>
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