@[email protected] to Programmer [email protected] • 9 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-up1384arrow-down126
arrow-up1358arrow-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] • 9 months agomessage-square172fedilink
minus-squarelwhjplinkfedilink45•9 months agoMost people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).
Most people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).