From: Hansang Bae (hbae@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 01:10:41 GMT-3
At 10:38 PM 7/15/2002 -0500, Michael Snyder wrote:
>I assume that a KB (with a uppercase B) is kilobyte and Kb (with a
>lowercase b) is kilobit.
>My question is this, Does the K equal a 1000, or a 1024?
>When I programmed 6502 processor back in school, a Kilobyte was always
>1024 bytes, or 8192 bits.
>In short, does a KB equal;
>A) 1000 Bytes or 8000 bits
>B) 1024 Bytes or 8192 bits.
>
>[snip]
>I think I already know that kilo in Cisco land is 1000, but if they are
>willing to use 1000 instead of 1024; why not use 10 bits instead of 8
>bits per byte. It would really help with the math. My point being that
>both 8 bits per byte, and 1024 bytes per K came about at the same time,
>and for the same reason, being computer memory and address based. Go
>figure.
When referring to clock speed, K == 1000. All telco's use K == 1000. So 1.544
Mbps is 1,544,000 bits per second. Or 10Mbps is 10,000,000 bits pers second.
When dealing with the amount of data (packet size, frame size, cargo size, etc.
) it's the old CompSci K == 1024.
hsb
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