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kstrauser 2 days ago

Yes, 2**10 times this, yes.

Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.

ralferoo 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.

nacozarina a day ago | parent | prev [-]

you'll eat your kibbles & bits and like it !

mmphosis a day ago | parent [-]

The Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

"the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

kstrauser 14 hours ago | parent [-]

It has 64 kilobytes. The definition of kilobyte and megabyte (and I presume gigabyte, among people who could afford caring about them) were universally agreed to be binary.