[Coco] kibibyte

[Arthur Flexser]

My prediction is that the terms will never catch on, since they indeed sound
silly, but the abbreviations (KiB, MiB, GiB) will supplant KB, MB, and GB to
eliminate the ambiguity about what the latter terms mean.  

Art

On Wed, 15 Aug 2007, Frank Pittel wrote:

> 
> I think a big part of the problem with getting people to use the
> prefixes, kibibyte, mibibyte and gibibyte is that they sound silly
> to say, and no one else in the industry uses the terms. Maybe if
> harddrive and flash memory vendors started using them it might start
> to catch on. Unless that happens the prefixes are a good idea destined
> to go the way of esperanto.