Re: [coreboot] DFI Infinity NF570-M2/G motherboard

[ron minnich]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Ward Vandewege  wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 03:37:23PM +0000, Chris Lingard wrote:
> > LOL
> >
> > We use different terms
> >
> > To me a Mb is one million bytes
> > And a MB is one million bits
>
> Oh, wow, that's completely the opposite of what I've always used/seen. Where
> does this come frome?

it's not standard usage but it is very english-language centric.

B is > b and 8 is > 1, so typical usage is B is Bytes, and b is bits.

I've never seen B=bits and b = bytes, but, that said, lots of people
(like me) are not careful about MB vs. mb.

ron