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did anyone ever program in RPG?
01-02-2018, 12:15 AM
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RE: did anyone ever program in RPG?
(01-01-2018 08:54 PM)Guenter Schink Wrote:  
(12-30-2017 12:33 AM)Don Shepherd Wrote:  The authors claim that "K", as in 64K of memory, actually stands for multiples of 1028. Hmm, I always thought (and still think) that K=1024. How could they get this wrong?
The 1970's were interesting.

I recall indeed that "K" was widely used to distinguish 1024 bytes from kB being 1000 bytes. I think it changed to the ambigous meaning we have today at sometime in the mid to late 80s.

Günter

Today we have Kibibytes (KiB) and Mebibytes (MiB) to further confuse the U.S. with the metric system.
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