That’s a retcon of hardware producers using measurement units confusion to advertise less as more.
It’s nice to have consistent units naming, but when the industry has existed for a long enough time with the old ones, seems intentional harm for profit.
That’s not a retcon. Manufacturers were super inconsistent with using it, so we standardized the terminology. For floppy disks were advertised as 1.44MB, but have an actual capacity of 1440 KiB, which is 1.47 MB or 1.41 MiB.
The standardization goes back to 1999 when the IEC officially adopted and published that standard.
There was a federal lawsuit on the matter in California in 2020 that agreed with the IEC terminology.
All of this was taken from this Wikipedia article if you’d like to read more. Since we have common usage, standards going back almost 30 years, and a federal US lawsuit all confirming the terminology difference between binary and decimal units, it really doesn’t seem like a retcon.
That’s a retcon of hardware producers using measurement units confusion to advertise less as more.
It’s nice to have consistent units naming, but when the industry has existed for a long enough time with the old ones, seems intentional harm for profit.
That’s not a retcon. Manufacturers were super inconsistent with using it, so we standardized the terminology. For floppy disks were advertised as 1.44MB, but have an actual capacity of 1440 KiB, which is 1.47 MB or 1.41 MiB.
The standardization goes back to 1999 when the IEC officially adopted and published that standard.
There was a federal lawsuit on the matter in California in 2020 that agreed with the IEC terminology.
All of this was taken from this Wikipedia article if you’d like to read more. Since we have common usage, standards going back almost 30 years, and a federal US lawsuit all confirming the terminology difference between binary and decimal units, it really doesn’t seem like a retcon.
OK, fine, all the world might say whatever it wants, but my units are powers of 2.
I prefer it too, but just because “gibibyte” is a stupid word doesn’t mean it’s fine to go against standards.