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From: Mike Harrold <mharrold@cas.org>
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Subject: Re: Changing KB, MB, and GB to KiB, MiB, and GiB in Configure.help.
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:50:55 -0500 (EST)
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> 
> > Yeah, no shit? The first time I buy 512MB of RAM and get 512000 KB
> > (aka 512000000 bytes) I am gonna be *PISSED*
> 
> Have a work with your hard disk manufacturer then
> 

That isn't quite so important. My kernel isn't likely to f*ck up when
a 40GB HD = 40,000,000,000. I'm sure it will die quite painfully with
RAM chips that are not powers of 2.

Regards,

/Mike