English Dictionary: kibibit | by the DICT Development Group |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
kibibyte distinguish it from 1000 bytes which they call a kilobyte. "Mebibyte", "Gibibyte", etc, are prefixes for other powers of 1024. Although this new naming standard has been widely reported in 2003, it seems unlikely to catch on. (2003-09-27) |