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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by kstrauser on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @02:51PM (#46876301)
Yes, 2**10 times this, yes.

Call me calcitrant, reactionary, or whatever, but I will not say kibibyte out loud. It's a dumb word and I'm not using it. It was a horrible choice.

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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by ralferoo on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:31PM (#46876857)
They should call their stupid SI power-of-10 units kisibyte instead.
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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by nacozarina on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @07:11AM (#46884903)
you'll eat your kibbles & bits and like it !
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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by mmphosis on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @12:12PM (#46888483)
The Commdore 64 has 64 kibibytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte#Multiple-byte_units

"the C64 took its name from its 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_64

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Re:Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes by kstrauser on Thursday February 05, 2026 @12:30AM (#46896026)
It has 64 kilobytes. The definition of kilobyte and megabyte (and I presume gigabyte, among people who could afford caring about them) were universally agreed to be binary.
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