@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 8 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-square172fedilinkarrow-up1383arrow-down126
arrow-up1357arrow-down1message-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] • 8 months agomessage-square172fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink83•8 months agobit, Nibble, Byte, Word, doubleword, longword, quadword, double-quadword, verylongword, halfword They check all Imperial criteria: confusing names some used only in some systems size depends on where you are some may overlap doesn’t manage to cover all the possible needs, but do you really need more than 64 bits? would probably cause you to crash a rocket
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink3•8 months agoWords! Of course! Imperial measurement is words. Because they are as inconsistent as other imperial units.
bit, Nibble, Byte, Word, doubleword, longword, quadword, double-quadword, verylongword, halfword
They check all Imperial criteria:
Words! Of course! Imperial measurement is words. Because they are as inconsistent as other imperial units.