Thread: Explain the filesystem to me please?
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2009-12-08 , 20:09
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#22
Originally Posted by rjzak View Post
Who's the ***** who decided that the world's capacities should be in Base 10, when the world of bits N bytes is ruled in Base 2?
The question's more which idiot decided to use established global identifiers (k, M, G, etc.) for non-standard values. The SI multipliers had been around for hundreds of years before binary computers came along.