Comment on Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 9 months agoNobody gave a fuck until they bought a 300gb hd with 277gb of free space
The difference was a lot smaller when you were dealing with 700 byte files - it was often a rounding error. Also - you needed two sectors (1024 bytes at the time) two store a 700 byte file, so what does it matter anyway?
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Yeah, no, I’m sure I noticed it but I didn’t really have the sophistication to get the implication.
Before we got our first Windows machine I had some DOS books. I remember a table in DOS for dummies talking about kilo/giga/petabytes and internalized it, but CDs were a thing by then.