1MB = 1 million bytes 1Mb = 1Mbit = 1 million bits 1MiB (mebibyte) = 1.048.576 bytes, which is what most people call mega byte(MB), but isn't. 1Mibit = 1 Mib = 1.048.576 bits
Usually when a chip is said to have 1MB it really has 1MiB, not less, and 8Mib, not 8Mb.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mebibit
Best regards, Tiago Marques
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Chris Lingard chris@stockwith.co.ukwrote:
Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 26.10.2008 15:39, Chris Lingard wrote:
Corey Osgood wrote:
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Chris Lingard <chris@stockwith.co.uk mailto:chris@stockwith.co.uk> wrote: The board comes with a ITE IT8716F 4MB chip; but that is compatible with SST49LF040A chips. I already have these and some SST49LF080A chips; just wish there were 160 or 320MB
I'm hoping that's a typo, SST49LF080 is 8Mb (that's 8 megabits, or 1 megabyte), larger chips would be 16 or 32Mb (2 or 4MB).
Well if 040 is 4MB and 080 is 8MB, I would hope there is a 160 at 16MB and so on; or do engineers use a secret numbering system :-)
Secret numbering system. 040 is 4 Mbit = 512 kByte 080 is 8 Mbit = 1 MByte 160 is 16 Mbit = 2 MByte
I used to do boot CDs pretending to be 2.8Mb floppies, and would be
happy with a 4Mb chip to get a Linux kernel into.
No, these were 2.88 MByte floppies, not 2.88 Mbit floppies. Even the SST49LF160 chip is smaller than that floppy.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
LOL
We use different terms
To me a Mb is one million bytes And a MB is one million bits
But we all agree in the end
Chris Lingard
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