BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agoKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?message-squaremessage-square195fedilinkarrow-up1394arrow-down127
arrow-up1367arrow-down1message-squareKB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?BmeBenji@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@lemmy.ml · 8 months agomessage-square195fedilink
minus-squareRinoxlinkfedilinkarrow-up88arrow-down1·8 months agobit, Nibble, Byte, Word, doubleword, longword, quadword, double-quadword, verylongword, halfword They check all Imperial criteria: confusing names some used only in some systems size depends on where you are some may overlap doesn’t manage to cover all the possible needs, but do you really need more than 64 bits? would probably cause you to crash a rocket
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 months agoWords! Of course! Imperial measurement is words. Because they are as inconsistent as other imperial units.
bit, Nibble, Byte, Word, doubleword, longword, quadword, double-quadword, verylongword, halfword
They check all Imperial criteria:
Words! Of course! Imperial measurement is words. Because they are as inconsistent as other imperial units.