I'm sorry you're having difficulty with clear communication. Just trying to help.
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I'm sorry you're having difficulty with clear communication. Just trying to help.
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Nobody's stopping you. But a gigabit is not a gigabyte, and a gigabyte is not a gibibyte.
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Perhaps I'm being pedantic, but not bothering to type the correct letters helps nobody.
You're clearly very intelligent as you know all about memory acronyms. And yet strangely, you are confused when people just use the wrong letters in a fairly obvious context. Ironic really.
I'm not in the least confused, other people may be.
Isn't it obvious that 4Gb means 4 Giga Bytes.
You can't buy 4 Giga bit memory. So stating 4GB or 4Gb is not an issue.
I know the correct terminology is 4GB but I also know that others will know I am on about 4 Giga Bytes of RAM (or is it Ram, ram R.A.M.) So it doesn't matter if 4gb 4GB or 4gb is posted.
Monkeh was trolling or trying to be funny. Neither qualities were nice.
You can't buy 4 Giga bit memory. So stating 4GB or 4Gb is not an issue.
I know the correct terminology is 4GB but I also know that others will know I am on about 4 Giga Bytes of RAM (or is it Ram, ram R.A.M.) So it doesn't matter if 4gb 4GB or 4gb is posted.
Monkeh was trolling or trying to be funny. Neither qualities were nice.
No, it's not, because Gb means gigabit.
You're partially right, you can buy 4Gib memory. This is 4Gib (NOT 4Gb, 4GB or 4GiB) of DDR3. If you know the units, you'll know that's 512MiB, much like this, which is DDR2.
And if they don't know the difference between a gigabit and a gigabyte, and then start looking at, say, broadband line speeds, which actually are in gigabits?
No, I'm trying to bang the difference between Gb and GB into your head. Along with, say, ton and tonne. It matters, and it costs you NOTHING to get it right! So if you know the correct terminology (you apparently don't, because it's GiB, but I'm letting that slide), why on earth don't you use it? Sheer laziness, can't be bothered holding the shift key down a fraction of a second longer?
Slight thread drift. The earlier post about BIOSes using tricks to enable a 32bit OS to see more than 4GB reminded me of the first computer I built. It was 1991 and the PC was a 286 with 1MB (yes, one megabyte) of RAM. The BIOS had a setting to "move" the RAM between 768KB and 1MB beyond the 1MB position to make it usable. (Bear in mind that DOS 3.3 could only use a max of 640KB of RAM and a max of 32MB of hard disk). I did not initially have a hard disk so I set up the "extra" RAM as a RamDisk which contained COMMAND.COM and things like COUNTRY.SYS and KEYB.COM. So after booting from floppy (720KB) control passed to the ramdisk so the boot floppy could be removed and the drive used with other disks.
Ever thought about becoming a teacher? Plenty of kids out there who make mistakes ALL THE TIME. You'd LOVE it. I mean, when they miss capital letters at the start of the sentence, you can say "WHAT LANGUAGE IS THIS??? It just doesn't make ANY SENSE AT ALL!"
On a DIY Forum talking about a home PC? No....it really REALLY doesn't.
Seriously....nobody cares.
OK. I'm done. Its all a laugh isnt it?
Its amazing how much you learn when you have no choice....I created many boot disks for the sole purpose of freeing up as much of that 640kb as possible...just to play games!
Mistakes are fine. This is willful laziness, and I'm sick of it. It leads to the confusion and brokenness prevalent in the IT world.
I know it's an old thread, but I couldn't resist .... You haven't lived
The first computer I built (and I really mean built) , ~1980, had 8-bits worth of Z80, 8 KB of (static) RAM and no discs. I wrote various utilities and applications (like a rudimentary word process) directly in Z80 machine code, stored on an audio cassette recorder, but programs had to be kept to a max size of about 2 KB, leaving the other 6 KB for 'workspace' (the document etc.!). I eventually upgraded it to 64 KB of (dynamic!) RAM.Kind Regards, John
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