Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better
by perennialmind on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:19PM
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The sentence "a 32-bit CPU register can address up to 4 gigabyte of memory" is sloppy, the sentence "a 32-bit CPU register can address up to 4 GiB of memory" is not.
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Re:Modern HDDs have gotten somewhat better
by hulitu on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @02:31PM
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> The sentence "a 32-bit CPU register can address up to 4 gigabyte of memory" is sloppy, the sentence "a 32-bit CPU register can address up to 4 GiB of memory" is not.
"Up to" is marketing. From my experience "up to" starts from 0.
32 bits can address 4GiB. That's how 2^32 works. It can also address 2GiB, or 1GiB. I think the wording is fine.
Like saying a car can go up to 200mph, no one thinks the car is unable to go 50mph.