[Fedora] Re: large disk space problem?

[John Summerfield]

Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> John Summerfield wrote:
>> be fair, everywhere else but computing, K means 10^3, M 10^6 etc. It's 
>> early computer types that sought to redefine it.
>    And in 2000, the International Electrotechnical Commission redefined it:
> 
>    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix

On reading that, it seems to me that IEC didn't redefine anything, they 
sought to correct the earlier mistake and introduce alternative terminology.

btw I suspect Seymour Cray is more famous outside IBM circles than Gene 
Amdahl. Gene was IBM's equivalent, bot were lead developers (Gene the 
S/360, Seymour the 7600 etc), both were dissatisfied and left to 
establish their own companies, and both companies had significant 
effects in computing.



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Cheers
John

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