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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by jerf on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @10:18AM (#18121900)
Star Trek: The Next Generation referred to data sizes as "quads", which has the advantage that it has actually future-proofed the series a bit. It's fairly clear that whatever a "quad" is, it isn't just two bits smashed together, but what it is? Who knows.
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Re:Bill Gates: “I never said '640K should be enough for anyb... by ken on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @11:44AM (#18122713)
It's true that most of Star Trek uses vague or made-up terms for computing measures, but Data formally refers to his own storage in units of "quadrillion bits", and apparently using that as a definition of "quad" makes for a reasonable order-of-magnitude estimate for other uses, even today.
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