hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com (05/24/91)
Whilst we use their excellent tape drives all over the place, am I the only person who's irritated by the name "exabyte", which is in fact 1000 terabytes, and not the name of a sort of tape drive? Is this "truth in advertising" since we'd need about 500,000 of them to make a *real* terabyte? Never mind. It's Friday night and I've been in meetings all day .... Hugh. ------------------------------------------------------ "I used to say that politics was the second lowest profession and I have come to know that it bears a great resemblance to the first". Ronald Reagan (1911- )
phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Phil Howard KA9WGN) (05/25/91)
hugh_davies.wgc1@rx.xerox.com writes: >Whilst we use their excellent tape drives all over the place, am I the only >person who's irritated by the name "exabyte", which is in fact 1000 terabytes, >and not the name of a sort of tape drive? Is this "truth in advertising" since >we'd need about 500,000 of them to make a *real* terabyte? >Never mind. It's Friday night and I've been in meetings all day .... You are not the only one. Though that should be 500 for a terabyte and 500,000 for a real exabyte. They probably chose NOT to use "Terabyte" because people would have dubbed them "Terrible". -- /***************************************************************************\ / Phil Howard -- KA9WGN -- phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu | Guns don't aim guns at \ \ Lietuva laisva -- Brivu Latviju -- Eesti vabaks | people; CRIMINALS do!! / \***************************************************************************/