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To: Spots who wrote (6977)	4/10/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: Sean W. Smith	Respond to of 14778

All Generally... Kb means kilo bits KB means kilo bytes.. you will see this missed used a lot Also note descrprency in counting with computers in general. Marketing and Sales people always use 10^6 to mean 1 million computer people generally use 2^20 to mean 1 million which is really more than a million but falls on an even power of 2. Since computer use binary the use of round binary #'s to approximate decimal is common.... This is where most common sizes come from.... 2^8 = 256 2^16 = 65536 2"24 = 16,777,216 (~16 Million) 2^32 = 4,294,967,296 (~4 Billion) etc.... Sean

To: Spots who wrote (6977)	4/10/1999 11:53:00 AM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Kb,mb,mbs... Modem manufacturers used to express their performance in BAUD. BAUD, named after Baud, the guy who did some early communications research, refers to 'state changes' per second. We computer users sometimes confuse 'state changes' with 'bits' because a 'bit' is the only 'state change' we commonly work with. In modems, on the telephone side anyway, state changes do not necessarily correspond with bits, even though on the computer side of modems, they do. Additional confusion comes from defining 'k' as either 1000 as the original 'Kilo' traditionally meant or the new 'k' as 1024 meaning 2^10. As you can imagine, with 'Meg', things only get worse! So, which is it? As long as 'k' can mean 1,000 or 1,024 and 'b' can mean 'baud', 'bit', or 'byte', we'll never know for sure. Have a nice weekend. PW.