Re: The joy of FORTRAN

Le 28-02-2025, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> a écrit :

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Consider those hard drives. The makers sold them with capacities measured
in MB and GB (and approaching TB, at that point). But the OSes reported
file sizes and available space in units they also called “kB”, “MB” and
“GB”, but were actually kiB, MiB and GiB.

In fact, it's the other way around. 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. Putting their own
definitions on the units printed in very little characters.

And then some guys came saying the sellers are right, the OSes need to
change the units used from the beginning to adapt to the sellers.

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