Computer

Bits and bytes

10th
Sep 09

I am getting more and more amazed that people, especially those in the computer industry and even teachers and academics, do not know the difference between Megabits (Mb) and MegaBytes (MB). I keep seeing things like "This computer has a 120Gb hard disk" when it should be 120GB. There is a big difference. If it was 120Gb, then in real terms it is only a 15GB drive. People get it sorted, Bytes is a big B, bits is a little b and Bytes is for storage and bits for transmission.

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