Kbytes: Real memory vs. Hard disk space

[Geoff Coleman]

In article <862 at rufus.UUCP> drake at drake.almaden.ibm.com writes:
>Each announcement letter for a RISC System/6000 product contains the
>following comment:
>
>           NOTE: MB is 1,048,576 bytes (two to the twentieth power) when
>           referring to memory; in all other cases it is 1,000,000 (ten to the
>           sixth power).
>                  GB is 1,073,741,824 bytes (two to the thirtieth power) when
>           referring to memory; in all other cases it is 1,000,000,000 (ten to
>           the ninth power).

	So nice of IBM to use a couple of different definitions for the same 
term. I guess it makes their disks look larger to the unknowing. What I find
really amusing is that du and df don't add up because du appears to return 
number of blocks in 1024 byte blocks not in 1000 byte blocks.



Geoff Coleman