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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It was so during the age of floppy discs. Our computers use TiB, marketers use TB to sell storage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The biggest problem is that Windows still calls TiB and friends with si prefixes (so 1TiB shows as 1TB). MS has done this since DOS (but at least back then MiB didn't exist. They could've used base 10 though).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

TiB (and the related) didn't get named until recently, and I think only Linux uses those abbreviations — and not universally — windows still says kB, mB etc, while using the binary equivalents

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

"recently", they are the standard for almost 25 years now.