On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> > > Using software compression resulted in 73 Gbyte data compressing
> > > to 30 Gbyte.  (I use AIT-1 tapes, 35 Gbyte native, actually
> > > amtapetype reports 33400 Mbyte: difference between marketing and
> > > reality).
> > 
> > That's just the difference between GiB and GB :-)
> 
> That's exactly what I mean.
> 
> Manufactures of tapes and disks use the ISO standard where K=1000 etc.
> While you can't blame them for misinformation (it is an international
> standard), they ignore the fact that most computer-users use K=1024.
> 
> That's why Amendment 2 of IEC 60027-2 is proposed (Ki=1024, or k=1000
> and K=1024, etc.).

No, K is Kelvin :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                                                Geert

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