Timeline for How is it possible that they used to type "Mb" when they meant "MB" in printed computer magazines in the 1990s?
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| May 9, 2020 at 16:54 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @BruceAbbott Well, 99.99 of mine are as well not new ... still, it works fine even for most of them - analogue and non binary do still resist. | |
| May 9, 2020 at 0:42 | comment | added | Bruce Abbott | "Try it yourself. You'll get used soon and laugh about all the inconsistency others still produce." - I did, and I can't. All my computers are 'retro', and so am I! | |
| S May 4, 2020 at 7:13 | history | suggested | Joshua Schwartz | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 4, 2020 at 6:40 | comment | added | JBentley | @JdeBP I think you misunderstood me. The standards I cited were counterexamples to this: "with bit not abbreviated to lowercase b". I was pointing out that they were abbreviated to lowercase b. | |
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| May 2, 2020 at 13:40 | history | edited | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 2, 2020 at 13:27 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @JdeBP Not sidestepping anything - but as well not eager for a personal fight. Please stop accusing, simply try to read what has been said - I never said'not educated' but 'partiality educated' - scroll a few centimeter up and check again. I stand with that. Been there, know them. For the dates, IEC standardized the binary prefixes as IEC 60027 in 1998, published in Jan 1999, so two full years before the 21st century. Having a look at the source is what I'd call educated - especially when just a few clicks away. Ofc, if one only consider US standards worthwhile, we may miss a common ground. | |
| May 2, 2020 at 12:57 | comment | added | JdeBP | You are side-stepping where you ascribed it to people not being educated, Raffzahn. And you are dodging and weaving, talking of lack of standardization in one breath and then claiming worldwide standardization in the next. M. Bentley has pointed to some 21st century years for you. And M. Bentley, you cannot be seriously proposing that standards from 2002 and 2004 are counterexamples to what I said about standardization in the 21st century. ISO/IEC 2382:1984, would be a counterexample, were it not that its entries for "bit" and "byte" do not give abbreviations. (-: | |
| May 2, 2020 at 12:11 | comment | added | Raffzahn | @JdeBP I'm not sure where I said Magazines didn't try to harmonize, did I? In my memory it was each on its own and more often than not it was author vs. author within the same magazine. I do even remember articles about - equally well worded for whatever was choosen. There was no standard at all, and not even an informal - which is an oxymoron, isn't it? Conventions (which it was) existed on a random level. It was up to each authors education to decide. Also, worldwide standardization for B/bit (as well as later the binary prefixes) happened in the 1990s, no need to wait for the 21st century. | |
| May 2, 2020 at 10:55 | comment | added | JBentley |
@JdeBP To be fair the quoted line says 1970s / early 80s. And there are standards using lowercase b for bit: 1 2
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| May 2, 2020 at 7:57 | comment | added | JdeBP |
It seems wrong to ascribe to lack of education the not knowing something that was not standardized in the 1970s, was de facto standardized the following decade (ironically for this answer, as promoted by computer magazines such as BYTE and InfoWorld), and only de jure standardized (with bit not abreviated to lowercase b, contrary to the question and what the de facto conventions were) in the 21st century. That's lack of a time machine, not lack of education.
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| May 1, 2020 at 22:55 | comment | added | scruss | As someone who wrote for computer magazines in the 1980s, can confirm ☺ But MiB is for Men in Black | |
| May 1, 2020 at 15:44 | history | answered | Raffzahn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |