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Technology Stocks : Microsoft - The Evil empire
MSFT 542.56+0.1%3:59 PM EDT
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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (1586)1/29/2003 3:56:15 PM
From: Daniel  Read Replies (1) of 1600
 
Len,

Whoever wrote that article doesn't know as much about
computers as he'd like us to think:

> The number 128 is important in personal computing. Because
> it's a tidy power of two, it often defines quantities of
> things like megabytes, megahertz and megawatts.

Megahertz? Never.

Megawatts? Never.

Binary megabytes ("mebibytes" (MiB))? Um...not like
1024**2 of 16**5.

Daniel
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