BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 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-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up1391
arrow-up1391message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squareMelmilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months 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-squarelitchralee@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-28 months 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