From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com>
Subject: Re: buying a compter
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 16:37:05 -0500
Date: 2002-08-10T16:37:05-05:00 [thread overview]
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From: "AG" <ang@xtra.co.nz>
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To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
Sent: August 10, 2002 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: buying a compter
>
> "David C. Hoos, Sr." <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.1028984041.26687.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org...
> > 1 GHz = 1000 MHz = 1,000,000 KHz = 1,000,000,000 Hz
>
> Ahh, but much too often there is
> a confusion - if you buy a computer
> that is quoted as having 1Gb of
> memory, you aren't likely to receive
> exactly 1,000,000,000 bytes ;-)
There may be confusion about the meaning og Giga-, Mega-, and Kilo-
when it comes to memory space, just because 1024 is a handy integer
power of 2 -- but there is no such confusion when it comes to _frequency_,
which is what the original poster was talking about.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-10 3:22 buying a compter SILVERCREEK421
2002-08-10 12:55 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2002-08-10 20:44 ` AG
2002-08-10 21:37 ` David C. Hoos, Sr. [this message]
2002-08-11 11:17 ` Adrian Knoth
2002-08-12 6:48 ` AG
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