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From: Thorsten Glaser (tg-2001_at_netcologne.de)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 13:40:32 CST

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    begin electrogrammati illius Theo de Raadt

    >SI does not matter in this case.
    >
    >Ethernet runs at multiples of 1000 Hz.
    >
    >Take it or leave it.

    Ok, I take it.

    >K means roughly 1000-1024, M means roughly 1000-1024 more than
    >that.

    No. "k" means exactly 1000, and "K" means exactly 1024.

    >Making up new terms is idiotic.

    Well, I laughed first at "Kibibyte", too.
    But the difference between lower- and uppercase 'k' (as opposed
    to 'M' and 'G') has always been there.

    -Thorsten 

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