did anyone ever program in RPG?

[Thomas Okken]

As I recall, when talking about RAM, kilo, mega, etc. always stood for powers of 1024, because that's natural for RAM since RAM chips always (?) contain power-of-two number of bytes.

For hard drives, on the other hand, manufacturers have long preferred powers of 1000, because they get to quote larger numbers that way, and hard drive sizes are not necessarily powers of two -- although I think SSD sizes often are, so who knows what will happen there.

For transmission speeds, it's usually powers of 1000, I think.

The kibi, mebi, etc. thing is a good idea, but way too late, and besides they sound silly, so thanks but no thanks.