[ros-dev] r46904 reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/miarm.h

[ShadowFlare]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 12:01 AM, ShadowFlare <blakflare at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM, breakoutbox <breakoutbox at web.de> wrote:
>
>> ShadowFlare wrote:
>>
>>> Both sides have their own historical reasons for keeping things the way
>>> they are.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb at googlemail.com<mailto:
>>> ajfweb at googlemail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    I don't think Microsoft was wrong, I think Hard
>>>    Disk manufacturers have tried to make them wrong in this case.
>>>
>>>
>> I didn't talk about history.
>>
>> But if You like :: let's look into history. One day in ...
>>
>> ".. December 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the
>> leading international organization for worldwide standardization in
>> electrotechnology, approved as an IEC International Standard names and
>> symbols for prefixes for binary multiples for use in the fields of data
>> processing and data transmission. The prefixes are as follows .."
>> http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html
>>
>> ... and since 1998 things changed.
>>
>
> Sorry, thought you were talking about the size and not the name.  Thanks
> for clarifying.
>

Oops, I didn't realize you were responding to my response to someone else's
message.  My original message was not intended for you, but for Andrew
Faulds, since he did seem to be talking about the sizes that were picked.
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