I often find myself explaining the same things in real life and online, so I recently started writing technical blog posts.

This one is about why it was a mistake to call 1024 bytes a kilobyte. It’s about a 20min read so thank you very much in advance if you find the time to read it.

Feedback is very much welcome. Thank you.

  • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    ·
    10 months ago

    Yeah, no, I’m sure I noticed it but I didn’t really have the sophistication to get the implication.

    Before we got our first Windows machine I had some DOS books. I remember a table in DOS for dummies talking about kilo/giga/petabytes and internalized it, but CDs were a thing by then.