@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-square196fedilinkarrow-up1395
arrow-up1395message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-squareMelmilinkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoWe already have a confusing abbreviation: B vs b. One is bits, one is bytes. It’s a pretty drastic difference. One Gb per second is only 125 MB per second. Don’t mess up your capitalization!
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agoIt’s for this reason I sometimes spell out the Bytes or bits. Eg: 88 Gbits/s or 1.44 MBytes It’s also especially useful for endianness and bit ordering: MSByte vs MSbit
We already have a confusing abbreviation:
Bvsb. One is bits, one is bytes.It’s a pretty drastic difference. One Gb per second is only 125 MB per second. Don’t mess up your capitalization!
It’s for this reason I sometimes spell out the Bytes or bits. Eg: 88 Gbits/s or 1.44 MBytes
It’s also especially useful for endianness and bit ordering: MSByte vs MSbit