Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 01. Mar 2025, 21:27:22
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On 01 Mar 2025 09:13:35 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
OSes reported units in power of two
because that's what existed at the time. When the makers wanted to cheat
the consumers and reported the units in power of ten.
You could argue that the hard drive makers were using the units correctly,
it was the ones (mis)interpreting “k” as “1024” and so on who were telling
lies.
And as I mentioned, those lies only got proportionally worse over time.