did anyone ever program in RPG?

[Guenter Schink]

(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